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Growth mindset misconceptions
- You believe you have a growth mindset. In truth, people tend to confuse a growth mindset with being open-minded or having a positive outlook. Everyone is a mixture of fixed and growth mindsets.
- A growth mindset is about praising and rewarding effort. However, it's vital to reward effort, learning and progress.
- People think just desiring a growth mindset is enough to make things happen. For example, organisations believe they have a growth mindset by creating mission statements that include innovation or growth empowerment, but they fail to implement policies to make them happen.
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How to encourage a growth mindset
- Encourage appropriate risk-taking.
- Reward employees for useful lessons learned even if the project does not meet its goals.
- Support collaboration across organizational boundaries rather than competing among employees.
- Commit to the growth of every member.
- Rein...
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A growth mindset is challenging
If we correct these misconceptions, it's still difficult to get a growth mindset, partly because we all have fixed mindset triggers, such as criticism, facing challenges, being compared with others that can push us into defensiveness.
It's hard for people to stay in a growth mindset. Howeve...
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The growth mindset
Research shows that people who believe they can develop their talents through hard work, good strategies and input from others have a growth mindset. They often achieve more than people who believe their talents are innate gifts.
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Despite being a buzzword, “Growth mindset” is still misunderstood:
- People believe they always had it. But a “pure” growth mindset doesn’t exist, we are a mixture of the two;
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1. Build a Growth Mindset
Research by psychologist Carol Dweck suggests that there are two basic mindsets that influence how people think about themselves and their abilities: the fixed mindset and the growth mindset.
Have a growth mindset
People's core attitudes fall into one of two categories: a fixed mindset or a growth mindset.
With a fixed mindset, you believe you are who you are and you cannot change. This creates problems when you're challenged, because anything that appears to be more than you can handle is bound to ...
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