In previous episodes we learned how to motivate by finding the feeling, shrinking the change, and growing the people. We saw that to grow the people, you needed each of them to be able to see themself as the kind of person who can make the change. A big challenge in helping a person to see themself as both needing to make and capable of making such a change is whether the mindset that person has is a fixed mindset or a growth mindset.
In the video above (with optional English subtitles so you can watch with the sound off), I talk about Dr. Carol Dweck’s book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success. Starting with the history of fixed mindset thinking, we discover the original purpose of IQ tests, geniuses who were considered ordinary at first, the distortions of the fixed mindset, how one tests for mindset, the fixed-minded sense of entitlement, not letting failures define you, changing the meaning of effort, loving what you do, and the relationship between mindset and confidence.
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