![]() ![]() ![]() The good news is that even if you currently have a fixed mindset, it’s not a fixed thing. Instead of depending on luck or “natural” talent, you focus on developing your skills and abilities, and learning from your efforts. When you embrace the tough stuff, you open yourself up to fully realize your potential and all that you can be. When you focus on a growth mindset, you embrace all the things that have felt threatening: challenge, struggle, criticism, and setbacks. Adopt a Growth Mindset and Focus on Learning Over Achievement. Here are 10 big ideas from the book that I think will help you embrace your challenges and growth opportunities to realize your potential and enjoy the journey, no matter the tough stuff that life throws your way. In the book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success: How We Can Learn to Fulfill Our Potential, Carol Dweck shares how a simple idea about the brain can create a love of learning and a resilience that is the basis of great accomplishment in every area of work and life. In a growth mindset, people believe that their most basic abilities can be developed. In a fixed mindset, people believe their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talent are simply fixed traits. That’s what a growth mindset is all about. What if you could embrace challenges, struggles, criticisms, and setbacks as a source of growth? What if you could break the chain of limiting thoughts about who you are and all you could be? “Becoming is better than being.” - Carol S. ![]()
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