How To Grow Your Mindset

Are you someone who sees things as either black or white? Perhaps you believe you are who you are and things can rarely be changed.

You prefer the tried and tested rather than the unknown – familiarity trumps uncertainty every time. If this is you, you have what psychologists call a fixed mindset. Or do you believe that different experiences and challenges teach you newer skills and there is always room to improve? If you fail, so what? You will still grow in some way. If you fall into this category, you have the growth mindset.

“A fixed mindset is when people believe their basic qualities, their intelligence, their talents, their abilities, are fixed traits. They have a certain amount, and that’s that,” says Professor Carol Dweck, a Stanford University psychologist and author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. “But other people have a growth mindset. They believe even basic talents and abilities can be developed through experience and mentorship. And these are the people who go for it. They’re not always Switch from a fixed mindset to believing that you can change and improve your life worried about how smart they are, how they’ll look, what a mistake will mean. They challenge themselves and grow.”

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