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Are you terrified of being ordinary?
Do you feel the need to be perfect today, not tomorrow?
In fact, mindset permeateseverypart of your life.
You’ll better understand your partner, your boss, your friends, your kids.
You’ll see how to unleash your potential as well as the potential of those around you.
You have a choice to make.
Mindsets are just beliefs.
Some of us are trained in this mindset from an early age.
Every situation is evaluated and calls for a confirmation of your intelligence, personality, or character.
Will you succeed or fail?
Will you look smart or dumb?
Will you be accepted or rejected?
By contrast, in a growth mindset, every situation is an opportunity to learn.
Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?
Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them?
And why seek out the tried and true instead of experiences that will stretch you?
Mindsets frame the running account that’s taking place in people’s heads.
They guide the whole interpretation process.
“This means I’m a better person than they are.”
“This means my partner is selfish.”
In several studies, Dweck probed the way people with a fixed mindset dealt with information they were receiving.
She found that they put a very strong evaluation on each and every piece of information.
When you enter a mindset, you enter a new world.
In one world, failure is about having a setback.
Getting a bad grade.
It means you’re not smart or talented.
In the growth mindset world, failure is about not growing.
Not reaching for the things you value.
It means you’re not fulfilling your potential.
Even in the growth mindset, failure can be a painful experience.
But it doesn’t define you.
The fixed mindset does not allow us the luxury of “becoming.”
We have to already be.
The hand you’re dealt is just the starting point for development.
On (Not) Embracing Change
Changing your mindset can be difficult.
And it’s not as if the fixed mindset wants to leave gracefully.
And finished products have to protect themselves, lament, and blame.
Everything but take charge.
It’s about seeing things in a new way.
When confronting challenges, they ask themselves: What can I learn from this?
How can I improve?
How can I support my partner to do this better?
It’s like anything else in the growth mindset.
Grow Your Mindset Quiz
Which mindset do you have?
Answer four questions about intelligence.
Read each statement and decide whether you mostly agree with it or disagree with it.
Questions 1 and 2 are the fixed-mindset questions.
Questions 3 and 4 reflect the growth mindset.
Which mindset did you agree with more?
you’re free to be a mixture, but most people lean toward one or the other.
You also have beliefs about other abilities.
