E12: Mindset: The New Psychology ...
E12: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

Books with Gavin 📚 by Gavin OBrien

Episode notes

3 Lessons 💡

1) Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset

  1. Believing your qualities are carved in stone, or having a fixed mindset, creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over. Failure has often been transformed from an action I failed to an identity, I am a failure. This is especially true in the fixed mindset.
  2. Growth mindset supporting environments include presenting skills as learnable, conveying that the organization values learning and perseverance, giving feedback in a way that promotes learning and future success and presenting managers as resources for learning
  3. Valuable Quotes:
    • An assessment at one point in time has little value for understanding someone's ability, let alone their potential to succeed in the future.
    • I'll be damned if I'm going to sit here and feel sorry for mys ... 
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