Building a Growth Mindset

Daily: Write down your understanding of fixed and growth mindsets in your own words, emphasizing effort and process.

“Sometimes we operate from what she calls a fixed mindset. Here we believe skills are something you're born with.”

Daily: Reflect on situations where you tend to adopt a fixed mindset and reframe the thought towards growth.

“Maybe instead of mindset, the term should be mind state. It's like in this current moment, I believe I can grow. That might not be true in even 10 minutes...”

Weekly review and report: Keep a journal tracking instances of belief, action and resultant growth, and their relationship to each other.

“Belief leads to action, and action leads to growth. B-A-G, bag.”

Weekly: Remember skills you've built and how you built them, emphasizing the process of development.

“Reflect, remember the skills that you've built and how you built the skills. When we reflect and give ourself credit, it's a good sort of backdoor way of building this belief.”

Monthly: Engage in a new learning experience, focusing on the learning process and not just the outcome.

“Another thing we can do, learn new stuff.”

Weekly: Research and understand how the brain changes through learning and how we can improve our capacity to learn through effort.

“We need some challenges and obstacles and struggle to grow.”