Name: The Most Powerful Mindset for Success
Uploaded: 2018-01-19T05:53:56.000Z
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There is a psychological trait that all successful
people appear to have in common.

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It's been cosigned by Bill Gates and NASA
uses it as a criteria for selecting potential

This concept is called the growth mindset,
a term originally coined by Carol Dweck.

People with the growth mindset believe that
intelligence or skill, in any field, can be

Basically, they believe that anyone can nurture
their abilities in anything.

The inverse of the growth mindset is the fixed
mindset.

People with this mindset believe that intelligence
and skill are innate: it's something that

We're either born gifted or not; there is
no room for change.

Basically, they believe intelligence is fixed
from birth.

In this essay, we'll explore why the growth
mindset is the better one and how we can develop

So, we talked a little about what the growth
mindset is: the belief that intelligence and

But, let's also talk about what it's not.

It won't help you get everything that you
want out of life and it won't make you the

However, it is a very powerful lens with which
to see the world and it can improve the probability

All of us are a mixture of both the growth
and fixed mindsets.

In some areas of our lives, we operate with
the growth mindset.

In others, we operate with the fixed mindset.

Because of this, I want you to think of both
mindsets like a pair of glasses.

Some people wear the growth glasses more often
and others wear the fixed glasses more.

However, we all wear both in different situations
in our lives.

Although, we should all strive to wear the
growth ones much more than we wear the fixed

Well, a lot of research seems to suggest that
people with the growth mindset are more successful

“Students who held a growth mindset were
three times more likely to score in the top

20% on the test, while students with a fixed
mindset were four times more likely to score

Another study found that when 7th graders
participated in a growth mindset program,

they were able to avoid a drop in grades which
usually occurs in middle school.

People with the growth mindset are much more
resilient which allows them to overcome challenging

Because they prioritize learning over failure,
they are unafraid to take risks.

On the other hand, people with the fixed mindset
don't want to challenge themselves because

they believe talent and intelligence are fixed.

They look at failure as an assault on who
they are as a person.

To them, lack of knowledge is an indicator
of stupidity and failure once means failure

A person with the growth mindset believes
that they are always in a state of flux and

transformation; so, they don't attach their
identity to their results.

Instead, they focus on the process of growing
and learning.

Few people will deny that the growth mindset
seems to map nicely onto reality.

We know that the brain can continue to learn
until the day we die, thanks to the field

It also seems quite intuitive that people
must work hard and persevere, despite obstacles,

So, the growth mindset seems to be a much
more accurate view of reality than the fixed

People with the growth mindset are living
in greater accordance with reality than people

They can make truer decisions where as a person
with the fixed mindset lives in a greater

Imagine two entrepreneurs: one has the growth
mindset and one has the fixed mindset.

They are both in the early stages of their
entrepreneurial journey.

Suddenly, they both encounter a roadblock
and are forced to make a decision.

The one with the fixed mindset see's the
long and arduous journey ahead of her due

The journey is in the way of what matters
to her: the result.

She believes that entrepreneurship should
come easy to those who are destined for it.

The one with the growth mindset see's the
long and arduous journey ahead of her and

The journey is the way for her; the journey
is what matters.

Taking the role of a student, she accepts
the long and arduous path as her teacher.

She will allow it to mold her into the person
she needs to become, to achieve the results

When we look at both of these examples, most
of us would agree that the entrepreneur with

the growth mindset has a greater understanding
of reality.

We know that things take time, effort, and
strategy to achieve but it's often difficult

to put that kind of thinking in to practice.

So, how can we develop the growth mindset?

The first key to developing a growth mindset
is actually very simple: understanding that

it exists and that it's possible for the
brain to change.

Neuroscience has shown that our brains are
not fixed, and, in fact, they are very malleable.

For example, a study found that taxicab drivers
developed more grey matter in their brains

to help them navigate more effectively in
large cities.

They also found that the amount of grey matter
in their brains was correlated with the number

of years that they had been working as a taxi
driver.

This suggests that the act of driving a taxi
led to changes in their brains which allowed

The second key is to focus on process over
results.

Dweck has said that we should praise others
for their efforts and their process, rather

“you studied very effectively for that test
and your hard work really paid off,”