The Key to Growth: Growth Mindset

Welcome back, this is Mr. A. Today I want to talk to you guys about what I believe is the most important key for a person to change: a growth mindset.

First of all, in case you don’t know it yet, let’s first explain what a growth mindset is, and its opposite, a fixed mindset. This is put forward by Carol Dweck, the author of the book "Mindset Wins", which refers to a person's perception and mentality of abilities and basic characteristics. People with a fixed mindset tend to think that a person's basic traits and abilities are fixed and innate; on the other hand, people with a growth mindset tend to believe that a person can change his basic traits and abilities through acquired learning.

Next, why do I say a growth mindset is the key to self-improvement? First, if you want to be different, you must first believe that you can change. Furthermore, when faced with external criticism and denial in life, these two mentalities will lead to diametrically opposite consequences. For example, suppose that when you lose in a certain competition, the growth mindset person believes that you can make yourself stronger through acquired efforts; the fixed mindset person concludes that the current defeat represents a failure in his life and a stain in his life. . Let's stretch the time and see who will win in the end, and who will lose again?

In short, growth mindset leads to strategies that treat failure and negativity as neutral "phenomenon" , just as drooling at the sight of food is the result of something. In other words, being able to influence outcomes through change; whereas a fixed mindset-based strategy sees failure as a kind of "trial ," a judgment of who you are by some supreme being.

Now we know what a growth mindset means, and the benefits of its strategy. So how do we change our beliefs? But know first that a replacement mindset is not like knee replacement surgery, it's a mix of old beliefs and new beliefs until you're completely transformed. This can be done from the outside in—realizing you have another strategy, choosing it, and slowly building up new problem coping mechanisms; or from the inside out—getting used to failure and practicing seeing it as a neutral phenomenon.

Finally, I would like to say that when you are on the road that truly belongs to you, the number of times you drink water a day is probably not as much as the failure you encounter. Yet that is the world, and for those who love it, the world always rewards it through challenges and denials. So stop being afraid of failure and denial, it means you are really on the right path.

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