Episode 357
Is THIS limiting your potential success?
In today's episode, I share some insights from Carol Dweck's groundbreaking book, "Mindset: The New Psychology of Success."
You'll learn the stark differences between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset, and how embracing the a growth mindset can propel you toward unparalleled levels of achievement and personal growth.
From understanding that intelligence and talent can be developed, to learning from criticism and pushing through obstacles, I bring you actionable strategies to help cultivate a growth mindset.
Simply altering your underlying beliefs can lead to massive improvements and open doors to incredible new opportunities.
It's time to change your mindset, change your life, and do good work!
Transcript
Let's talk about mindset. I recently read a book
Speaker:or listened to it rather, a book called Mindset the New Psychology of
Speaker:Success by Carol Dweck. It is a fantastic book. I'll
Speaker:drop a link down in the show notes, and I want to share with you
Speaker:the takeaways from that book. And it's been a while back since I
Speaker:read it. And I really should put it back on my list to go
Speaker:read slash listen to again. But a
Speaker:mindset, there's 2 types of mindset that that she goes into in the
Speaker:book. A fixed mindset and a growth mindset.
Speaker:And how you can identify, a fixed mindset
Speaker:is somebody who believes that your intelligence and your
Speaker:talent are static. That what you're born with is what you've
Speaker:got, and that's just it. So you can't grow beyond
Speaker:that intelligence and the talent that you've been given.
Speaker:Someone with a growth mindset believes that you're what
Speaker:you've been given is just a starting point. What you've been born with
Speaker:is simply where you begin. Your intelligence and your
Speaker:talent can be developed over time and you can grow into a
Speaker:more well rounded higher potential person.
Speaker:So as you consider, you know, a fixed mindset versus
Speaker:a growth mindset, you can really see how someone with a fixed
Speaker:talent that I was born with is fixed. Like,
Speaker:I can't grow in that. I I'm not gonna grow.
Speaker:I'm limiting myself into what I can do. Like, this is
Speaker:just what I was given, and that's all I've got. But
Speaker:if I believe that it can be developed, there's no
Speaker:limit to what I can accomplish
Speaker:because all I have to do is work on my
Speaker:intelligence. I have to work on my talent, work on the skills
Speaker:I've got. I can develop my personality. The potential that
Speaker:I have at that point is unlimited because I can always
Speaker:learn and grow. So that's the that's how
Speaker:fixed mindset versus a growth mindset, why different
Speaker:people achieve different things a lot more
Speaker:than others, and why some always seem to stay stuck.
Speaker:So why does this matter? First of all, a fixed mindset
Speaker:might prevent you from taking unnecessary risks because you want to avoid
Speaker:the possibility of failing or looking foolish to other people
Speaker:because, hey. Look. I screwed up. I'm a failure.
Speaker:That's what a fixed mindset person thinks of. That's what they
Speaker:believe if they try something and fail, and they
Speaker:often don't try because they don't want to be perceived as a
Speaker:failure. But a growth mindset, that encourages
Speaker:you to embrace challenges, push on through
Speaker:difficult circumstances, to learn from criticism, and to
Speaker:always find lessons and inspiration in the success of other
Speaker:people rather than trying to tear down their success or be
Speaker:envious of their success, find inspiration in it. That
Speaker:makes it a driver of achievement of achievement,
Speaker:not just achievement, makes it a driver of achievement and
Speaker:actually realizing your full potential. So how can you
Speaker:develop a growth mindset? First off, going back to the
Speaker:beginning, you have to start by understanding that your intelligence and your
Speaker:talent can be developed. So when challenges
Speaker:come up, push on through it. Push through the obstacles.
Speaker:Look at the obstacle as the way.
Speaker:The obstacle and the challenge is a path to
Speaker:teaching you mastery. You can learn through
Speaker:that. As you learn and grow, you become a better person. You
Speaker:gain new skills, new, insights
Speaker:through all of those things, and and you become more capable.
Speaker:You Can also learn from criticism. When somebody
Speaker:criticizes you, we tend to or I tend to take it
Speaker:personally. Somebody comes to me with something, I think they're attacking
Speaker:me, but in actuality, they're not. If
Speaker:I can accept it for what it is, removing myself
Speaker:from it as the object of the criticism and just look
Speaker:at what they're actually trying to tell me, I can grow in
Speaker:that. Each thing we do, each of
Speaker:these obstacles, these challenges, criticism from other people.
Speaker:All of those things is about moving beyond our
Speaker:comfort zone and continuously learning and
Speaker:improving. So one of the main takeaways from
Speaker:the book, our beliefs about ourselves
Speaker:dictate our behaviors. Let me say
Speaker:that again. Our beliefs about ourselves dictate our behaviors.
Speaker:And the reason that the reason that is is because when we
Speaker:believe something, we act out of that belief. It affects
Speaker:everything about life. And if we can
Speaker:change those beliefs, even just a little bit,
Speaker:that can open pathways to incredible new
Speaker:achievements. It can open pathways to
Speaker:massive improvement in our life, to many other things that we never
Speaker:thought possible. It's not just about working harder, but it's
Speaker:about changing the underlying beliefs that drive your behavior.
Speaker:It all it goes back to the the little children's
Speaker:story of the engine that could. You know, the little engine that could. The one
Speaker:engine trying to climb the hill, I I can't do it, I can't do it,
Speaker:and he couldn't. The little engine that could said, I think I can, I think
Speaker:I can, I think I can, and he got to the top of the hill?
Speaker:It's all a mindset. It's all about mindset.
Speaker:Again, I'm gonna drop a link to that book, Carol Dweck's book,
Speaker:Mindset, the New Psychology of Success, I think is what
Speaker:it is. Yeah. I'll drop that link down in the
Speaker:show notes where you can go find,
Speaker:whatever version of it you want or whatever, type you want,
Speaker:whether that's audio, Kindle, or physical book. It'll be on
Speaker:Amazon of course. Go listen to that book.
Speaker:Change your mindset. Change your life and do good work.
