How to Overcome the Fixed Mindset and Create Cultures of Growth
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The Four Mindset Triggers
Mary C. Murphy, a social psychologist and professor at Indiana University, identifies four key "mindset triggers" that individuals may find themselves in a fixed mindset.
- Evaluative Situations
- High Effort Situations
- Critical Feedback
- Success of Others
Let's understand these triggers and learn what actions can be taken to shift to a growth mindset.
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1. Evaluative Situations
- Evaluative situations are when we anticipate being assessed or evaluated by others. Think walking into a big presentation at work.
- In fixed mindset, individuals feel anxious and worried about others' evaluation on themselves, seeking ways to avoid it.
- In growth mindset, individuals feel nervous but energized and eager to improve.
- Moving Towards a Growth Mindset: View evaluative situations as opportunities for personal growth and development. Seek feedback from trusted friends or colleagues for support and constructive criticism.
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2. High Effort Situations
- Situations where success requires applying a lot more effort, time, mental energy, and attention than everyday tasks. E.g., preparing for a career change.
- In fixed mindset, you are feel overwhelmed and incapable, which leads to seeking lower-effort tasks or giving up.
- In growth mindset, individuals feel excited and up for the challenge, viewing it as learning opportunities.
- Moving Towards a Growth Mindset: Break tasks into manageable pieces to avoid feeling overwhelmed. Seek help and resources to work more effectively towards goals, for example others who have been through such situations.
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3. Critical Feedback
- Different from evaluative situations, critical feedback situations are those in which you’ve already received some kind of evaluation - like feedback from others that is not 100% positive.
- In fixed mindset, critical feedback may lead to feeling upset or defensive - tendency to discount or ignore feedback, focusing on self-preservation.
- In growth mindset, individuals seek out to receive actionable feedback from others - with a focus on how you can improve.
- Moving Towards a Growth Mindset: Take time to process feedback from others - write it down - to identify patterns and track progress over time.
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4. Success of Others
- Fixed mindset may lead to feelings of jealousy or dejection towards others' success - trying to undermine their success or give up on your own path. Individuals incorrectly view success as a limited resource.
- In a growth mindset, you feel proud and inspired by others' success.
- Moving Towards a Growth Mindset: When others succeed, we tend to focus on the result, rather than on the path they took to succeed. When we focus on how they succeeded, we’re more likely to identify useful strategies and opportunities that can help us on our own path toward success.
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