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“It’s better to be interested than interesting.” – Barbara Jordan

2 Mindsets

  1. Growth Mindset
    • I believe I can improve, love a challenge, and engage with difficulty instead of running from it.
  2. 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 FASCINATEDIt’s a choice.

Adversity is coming to us all; there is no avoiding it. When it comes, we have 2 decisions to make:

  1. Let it really get us down, blame others, make excuses, and believe we just have no luck at all.
  2. 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.

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