
“It’s better to be interested than interesting.” – Barbara Jordan
2 Mindsets
- Growth Mindset
- I believe I can improve, love a challenge, and engage with difficulty instead of running from it.
- Fixed Mindset
- I believe that my abilities, intelligence, and traits are set, fixed, and limited.
Those with a fixed mindset are 5x more likely to avoid challenges than those with a growth mindset.
Carol Dweck, a social psychologist at Stanford, wrote the best book available on this subject:
Growth Mindset.
She had decades of research on achievement and success and has proven a simple idea that makes a huge difference. She found that people have either a growth or fixed mindset when interpreting why and how people succeed or fail.
We either get FRUSTRATED or FASCINATED… It’s a choice.
Adversity is coming to us all; there is no avoiding it. When it comes, we have 2 decisions to make:
- Let it really get us down, blame others, make excuses, and believe we just have no luck at all.
- Become interested in the problem, know there is a lesson to be learned, and trust it will make us better in the future.
It’s a choice—not just the way it is! This is a growth mindset.
I Believe, Each day I have the opportunity to get better. If I get 1% better today, I am moving the needle of what God wants me to do—be the very best I can be. I can improve something daily: Read to learn, walk to help my fitness, eat to make my brain healthier.
Nothing is set in stone. I have the ability to get better.
It’s my CHOICE!
I hope you choose to get better today.