A summary of things you should know about Mindset according to Carol Dweck: Introduction In this episode world-renowned Stanford University psychologist, Carol Dweck, shares all her insights on her book,Read More
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]]>In this episode world-renowned Stanford University psychologist, Carol Dweck, shares all her insights on her book, Mindset, where she explains why it’s not just our abilities and talents that bring us success–but whether we approach them with a fixed or growth mindset.
In her book Dweck provides a checklist to assess yourself and shows how a particular mindset can affect all areas of your life, from business to sports and love. The goal of the book is to teach you how to reach your own personal and professional goes while developing a love of learning and resilience that is the bases of great accomplishment in every area in order to achieve ultimate success.
This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who are trying to figure what it is that makes them tick and would like to increase their own feelings of success and fulfillment.
There are a lot of books on how to be successful and they are wonderful books but they don’t tell you the mindset, the way of thinking that can lead you on the path to success or failure. And they don’t tell you how to change your mindset to be more successful.
I am told that it’s a very quick read. I am also told that many CEO’s read it all the way through and read it every year to remind themselves of the mindset lessons.
I would want the reader to know that their abilities can be developed and that their abilities are developed through taking on challenges and sticking to them.
The book opens by describing the mindsets. How do people differ and why do some people love a challenge and others want to play it safe?
The first mindset is a fixed mindset where people believe that talents and abilities are just these fixed traits, you have a certain amount and that’s it. When you have this fixed mindset you really, really care where your intelligence and talents are fixed. So you’re always trying to look smart and avoid mistakes that might make you look foolish. Your life is organized around looking smart and not looking dumb and when this permeates an organization we call it a culture of genius.
The other mindset is a growth mindset. In this mindset people believe that their talents and abilities can be developed. In a growth mindset you believe your basic talents and abilities developed through hard work, good strategies, and mentoring from others. Instead of worrying if you are going to look smart or not, in the growth mindset you jump into challenges because that’s how you learn. You choose things that are hard and you stick to them and you end up accomplishing more. This growth mindset also creates better teamwork because you believe in growing abilities through collaborating with others. In the long run people with the growth mindset not only accomplish more but they foster accomplishment in others.
Then in the book I go through how these mindsets actually work. So we talked about taking on challenges verses avoiding them, and another thing is effort. In a fixed mindset effort is a bad thing and they belief is if you were really smart things should come easily.
I then go into mindset in sports and it turns out that most of the really, really successful athletes have had a growth mindset. Many of them were naturally talented but they didn’t coast on it and they capitalized that by working hard and developing it.
The next chapter is on business and I do case studies of leaders with growth and fixed mindsets.
The book also talks about mindsets and relationships and how a fixed mindset can really derail a relationship whereas a growth mindset can help solve problems over the course of the relationship.
The next chapter deals with parents, teachers, and coaches and how to foster growth mindset in kids.
The final chapter is on changing mindsets. All of us are really a combination of fixed and growth mindsets. We can have fixed mindsets in some areas and growth mindsets in others. Or we can even change from situation to situation when we feel we are being measured and judged. It teaches us how to be aware of those mindsets and how to bring ourselves more into a growth mindset when that’s desirable.
NOTE: That was just a summary. To get the full deep dive, play the audio clip at 4:13
“It’s for you to decide whether change is right for you right now. Maybe it is, maybe it isn’t. But either way keep the growth mindset in your thoughts then when you bump up against obstacles you can turn to it, it will always be there for you showing you a path into the future.” – Carol Dweck
I am a Professor of Psychology at Stanford University and I have been studying why people succeed and fail for over 40 years.
I have been doing research for many years on why some people are go getter’s and jump in whereas others, just as talented or able, shy away from difficulty and end up not fulfilling their potential. After researching this for many years I came to the discovery of the mindsets as the cause of these differences. My students told me I had to write this book after benefiting from this knowledge and wanted others to know about it.
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]]>A summary of things you should know about EDGY Conversations according to Dan Waldschmidt Introduction In this episode Dan Waldschmidt discusses his book, EDGY Conversations which is a book thatRead More
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]]>In this episode Dan Waldschmidt discusses his book, EDGY Conversations which is a book that shows you how ordinary people achieve outrageous success. This book is perfect for entrepreneurs who find success to be skeptic and need a strong sense of will power to boost their abilities to succeed. Waldschmidt truly sets the tone for why people try to be successful but don’t.
One of the differences is you’ll probably find this to be one of tough love. We kind of slap you in the face and tell you that even if you follow the best process in the world, nine times out of ten, you’re still going to struggle and we teach you what to do in that process. The second difference is we tell some truly inspirational stories of normal people and write the book from the ordinary man’s approach. You might love me, you might hate me because it is a in your face book but at the end of it you will not be the same person.
You can pick it up in the middle if you want but I suspect, after you read the first few pages, you’ll want to start from beginning to the end. This book has so many intriguing true stories that will inspire you and hopefully make you want to read from beginning to end. All the stories are highlighted in red so that they are easy to find and share with others.
One thing is to try more. It’s a simple concept but edgy comes down to one thing, trying. People forget that trying is what you do until it’s done.
Our mission is for there to be full-on, hardcore transformation. We want you to see the world in a new way that you’ve never seen before. I have been on the stage many of times where I look out into the audience and I see the skeptics and I structured this book so that there would be a story that would pull you back in.
I start with my own personal story and I end with the conclusion to that story. And then the next few chapters are to convince you that being edgy is something that you want to do. We set the tone for why people try to be successful but don’t. They are trying to bolt on skills when they don’t need skill, they need will. We talk about the playing field for being successful.
The next four sections of the book we uncover the fact that there are four unique philosophies or attitudes of ordinary people who achieve outrageous success.
Firstly, they have extreme behavior. Secondly, they show disciplined activity. Third, they are givers and fourth they have a human strategy that I call emotional intelligence. We make the argument that you should strongly consider being extreme and show you how to do that. You should strongly consider being disciplined and not just doing more but denying yourself more.
We then come to a conclusion where this is your time to figure out if you’re ready to change your life or not. One of the final two chapters we talk about how there is always a reason to make an excuse. You might think that worked for everyone else but it wouldn’t work for you. We tell hundred stories back to back of somebody who did something outrageous for their age and had no excuses.
The last chapter tells a story that inspired me, the story of the Spartans. And this is where we try to inspire the reader to realize that it’s not just a job, it’s a war and you need to gear up to go to war. In the end we teach you, that you as an ordinary person can achieve what you desperately want to achieve but you have got to change the rules and transform your life.
“If you stop doing the right thing before it starts working you’ve just done the wrong thing.” – Dan Waldschmidt
I have been an entrepreneur from the time I was 12 when I started my first lawn mowing business. Some of the first lessons I learned mowing lawns, a couple hundred a week sometimes, not only paid my way through college but really formed the opinions that helped me make millions and millions of dollars by the time I was 25.
The reason I wrote the book was because I couldn’t find something like it out there already. I read so many books growing up and I never felt like I was getting the real deal. I always felt like it was too generic. I wanted to know how ordinary people achieve outrageous success. So that is what drove us to sit down, spend years’ worth of work and carve out this book that now is a bestseller.
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