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

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

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

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

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

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

read slash listen to again. But a

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

book. A fixed mindset and a growth mindset.

And how you can identify, a fixed mindset

is somebody who believes that your intelligence and your

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

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

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

Someone with a growth mindset believes that you're what

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

is simply where you begin. Your intelligence and your

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

more well rounded higher potential person.

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

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

talent that I was born with is fixed. Like,

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

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

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

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

limit to what I can accomplish

because all I have to do is work on my

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

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

I have at that point is unlimited because I can always

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

fixed mindset versus a growth mindset, why different

people achieve different things a lot more

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

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

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

the possibility of failing or looking foolish to other people

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

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

believe if they try something and fail, and they

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

failure. But a growth mindset, that encourages

you to embrace challenges, push on through

difficult circumstances, to learn from criticism, and to

always find lessons and inspiration in the success of other

people rather than trying to tear down their success or be

envious of their success, find inspiration in it. That

makes it a driver of achievement of achievement,

not just achievement, makes it a driver of achievement and

actually realizing your full potential. So how can you

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

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

talent can be developed. So when challenges

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

Look at the obstacle as the way.

The obstacle and the challenge is a path to

teaching you mastery. You can learn through

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

gain new skills, new, insights

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

You Can also learn from criticism. When somebody

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

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

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

I can accept it for what it is, removing myself

from it as the object of the criticism and just look

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

that. Each thing we do, each of

these obstacles, these challenges, criticism from other people.

All of those things is about moving beyond our

comfort zone and continuously learning and

improving. So one of the main takeaways from

the book, our beliefs about ourselves

dictate our behaviors. Let me say

that again. Our beliefs about ourselves dictate our behaviors.

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

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

everything about life. And if we can

change those beliefs, even just a little bit,

that can open pathways to incredible new

achievements. It can open pathways to

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

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

about changing the underlying beliefs that drive your behavior.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

show notes where you can go find,

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

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

Amazon of course. Go listen to that book.

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