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Is THIS limiting your potential success?
Episode 35716th July 2024 • Purpose, Passion, Profit • Ken Eash
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In today's episode, I share some insights from Carol Dweck's groundbreaking book, "Mindset: The New Psychology of Success."

You'll learn the stark differences between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset, and how embracing the a growth mindset can propel you toward unparalleled levels of achievement and personal growth.

From understanding that intelligence and talent can be developed, to learning from criticism and pushing through obstacles, I bring you actionable strategies to help cultivate a growth mindset.

Simply altering your underlying beliefs can lead to massive improvements and open doors to incredible new opportunities.

It's time to change your mindset, change your life, and do good work!

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Let's talk about mindset. I recently read a book

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or listened to it rather, a book called Mindset the New Psychology of

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Success by Carol Dweck. It is a fantastic book. I'll

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drop a link down in the show notes, and I want to share with you

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the takeaways from that book. And it's been a while back since I

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read it. And I really should put it back on my list to go

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read slash listen to again. But a

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mindset, there's 2 types of mindset that that she goes into in the

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book. A fixed mindset and a growth mindset.

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And how you can identify, a fixed mindset

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is somebody who believes that your intelligence and your

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talent are static. That what you're born with is what you've

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got, and that's just it. So you can't grow beyond

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that intelligence and the talent that you've been given.

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Someone with a growth mindset believes that you're what

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you've been given is just a starting point. What you've been born with

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is simply where you begin. Your intelligence and your

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talent can be developed over time and you can grow into a

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more well rounded higher potential person.

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So as you consider, you know, a fixed mindset versus

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a growth mindset, you can really see how someone with a fixed

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talent that I was born with is fixed. Like,

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I can't grow in that. I I'm not gonna grow.

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I'm limiting myself into what I can do. Like, this is

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just what I was given, and that's all I've got. But

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if I believe that it can be developed, there's no

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limit to what I can accomplish

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because all I have to do is work on my

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intelligence. I have to work on my talent, work on the skills

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I've got. I can develop my personality. The potential that

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I have at that point is unlimited because I can always

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learn and grow. So that's the that's how

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fixed mindset versus a growth mindset, why different

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people achieve different things a lot more

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than others, and why some always seem to stay stuck.

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So why does this matter? First of all, a fixed mindset

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might prevent you from taking unnecessary risks because you want to avoid

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the possibility of failing or looking foolish to other people

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because, hey. Look. I screwed up. I'm a failure.

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That's what a fixed mindset person thinks of. That's what they

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believe if they try something and fail, and they

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often don't try because they don't want to be perceived as a

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failure. But a growth mindset, that encourages

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you to embrace challenges, push on through

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difficult circumstances, to learn from criticism, and to

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always find lessons and inspiration in the success of other

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people rather than trying to tear down their success or be

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envious of their success, find inspiration in it. That

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makes it a driver of achievement of achievement,

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not just achievement, makes it a driver of achievement and

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actually realizing your full potential. So how can you

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develop a growth mindset? First off, going back to the

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beginning, you have to start by understanding that your intelligence and your

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talent can be developed. So when challenges

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come up, push on through it. Push through the obstacles.

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Look at the obstacle as the way.

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The obstacle and the challenge is a path to

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teaching you mastery. You can learn through

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that. As you learn and grow, you become a better person. You

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gain new skills, new, insights

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through all of those things, and and you become more capable.

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You Can also learn from criticism. When somebody

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criticizes you, we tend to or I tend to take it

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personally. Somebody comes to me with something, I think they're attacking

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me, but in actuality, they're not. If

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I can accept it for what it is, removing myself

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from it as the object of the criticism and just look

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at what they're actually trying to tell me, I can grow in

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that. Each thing we do, each of

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these obstacles, these challenges, criticism from other people.

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All of those things is about moving beyond our

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comfort zone and continuously learning and

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improving. So one of the main takeaways from

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the book, our beliefs about ourselves

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dictate our behaviors. Let me say

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that again. Our beliefs about ourselves dictate our behaviors.

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And the reason that the reason that is is because when we

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believe something, we act out of that belief. It affects

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everything about life. And if we can

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change those beliefs, even just a little bit,

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that can open pathways to incredible new

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achievements. It can open pathways to

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massive improvement in our life, to many other things that we never

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thought possible. It's not just about working harder, but it's

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about changing the underlying beliefs that drive your behavior.

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It all it goes back to the the little children's

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story of the engine that could. You know, the little engine that could. The one

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engine trying to climb the hill, I I can't do it, I can't do it,

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and he couldn't. The little engine that could said, I think I can, I think

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I can, I think I can, and he got to the top of the hill?

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It's all a mindset. It's all about mindset.

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Again, I'm gonna drop a link to that book, Carol Dweck's book,

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Mindset, the New Psychology of Success, I think is what

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it is. Yeah. I'll drop that link down in the

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show notes where you can go find,

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whatever version of it you want or whatever, type you want,

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whether that's audio, Kindle, or physical book. It'll be on

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Amazon of course. Go listen to that book.

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Change your mindset. Change your life and do good work.

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