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The Most Important Mindset for Long-term Success
Where talent is still relevant
Talent truly matters in two ways:
- As a head start in the race to mastery. Those who are willing to work hard can still pass you by, therefore the saying: "Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard."
- In edge cases. For the best of the best, talent matters more. Talent adds that little extra that takes their hard work to the peak of performance.
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Fixed vs. Growth Mindset
Growth Mindset:
- tend to understand basic abilities as malleable, and believe they can be developed over time.
- love new challenges and view setbacks as opport...
How to change your mindset
The 3 steps to encourage a change in mindset:
- Observe your mindset.
- Challenge your beliefs
- Build a “growth” muscle.
Observe your mindset
Notice if you rush to conclusions about fundamental abilities:
- Do you tell yourself that you’re no good at a particular task, so there’s no point attempting it ?
- Do you believe that success in certain kinds of activities are reserved for people who are naturally gifted?
- Do you worry that if you try your hardest and fail at something, you’ll be exposed as “no good”?
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A growth mindset is a desirable thing to have...
...so many people declare they have it:
- If they are open minded and flexible, they said they have it
- If they are kind to people, they said they have it
But a&nb...
The growth mindset
...is the belief that your abilities can be improved through effort.
And this means you can get better and hard work pays off.
Tips for encouraging a growth mindset (in yourself and in others):
- Don’t praise ability or intelligence: That promotes a fixed mindset. Compliment effort, process and choices.
- Don’t ignore outcome, tie it to effort: You can be happy about success, but attribute it to effort.
- Respond positively to failure: Failure isn’t bad, it’s a tool for improving.
- Don’t just say “Try hard.” Set goals: Blind repetition doesn’t work.
- Practice a Growth mindset in all areas of life: There’s no area where they cannot improve with hard work.
- Share your own Growth mindset efforts: Practice it yourself and share your results.
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Growth Mindset
People with a Growth Mindset believe they can grow, develop, and master whatever skills and abilities they wish in life.
They enjoy learning and overcoming challenges, work...
Mindset is a belief system
It includes the ideas we have about ourselves and the world around us.
These beliefs come from our innate dispositions, childhood experience and/or cultural/societal influence and are often entrenched.
Examine the evidence
If you believe you can’t learn new skills or change the way you work, look at the evidence that supports both your negative and positive beliefs.
This may not necessarily lead to a modification of those beliefs, but is an important start. You can use belief monitoring to keep track of your thinking.