The Fixed/Growth Mindset (1)

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Then, find the exact cause that would make a stupid flaw become something more serious.

These will be your attention points in the future. And they will help you avoid those mistakes and failures.

In the beginning, as you have never experienced any failure, your list will be raw and incomplete. But don’t worry! You have time to improve it the first time you face a setback. And, as you get to know your flaws better, you could enrich each step with a cause, probability, and even reme...

And then, you must find a remedy for each step that could help you climb back to the initial state when everything worked fine.

Search for a remedy will be almost impossible if you have never made a mistake. So I suggest you read other people’s stories to find possi...

Awareness is the first step towards improvement.

Yes, I know – it’s obvious. But, sometimes, the most obvious thing is the hardest to cope with.

So, to avoid deep falls, you better be aware that anything could go wrong. Sometimes, even terribly so. And you have to be ...

When you are passionate about something, you try your best to avoid mistakes. You put your heart on the line and take everything too seriously. And every failure or setback seems like the end of the world.

Yet, no matter how careful and perfect you try to b...

If we shift our mindset from fixed to growth, we could achieve two results:

• Avoid repeating the same stupid mistake.
• Learn from the flaws that make us weak.

Here’s a short list of benefits in case you are not convinced yet.

• When you create the list, you force yourself to think about all the possible consequences of your actions. So, building awareness is one of the fundamental benefits.
• Also, if you are aware of mi...

The first steps of your lists will always have a high probability because they are your most common flaws. But you should also be aware that worse things could happen.

I won’t bother to make a How-to-Fail list for events that have a 1% probability of happen...

Okay, good. Everybody should write at least one how-to-fail list. I will assume I convinced you. But what is that?

That’s pretty simple.

A How-to-Fail list is an exact description of the events that could make you fail a project that means a lot to you.

But not only that. It mus...

First of all, you must imagine which are the progressive steps that would bring you from the simplest mistake to the biggest disaster.

If you already know your flaws, it will be easy to find a starting point. But if you don’t, start with the basics: lack of motivati...