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Given at Fountain Street Church on July 6, 2014, Jill Hinton explained how creating a growth/"get better" mindset can improve almost any area of your life.
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A WORK IN PROGRESSHOW A GROWTH MINDSET CAN POWER EVERYTHING YOU DO
July 2014
JANUARY 2014POSSIBLY THE WORST DAY OF MY ADULT LIFE
MINDSET: THE NEW PSYCHOLOGY OF SUCCESSCAROL DWECK, PHD
“BECOMING IS BETTER THAN BEING.”
Be good / fixed mindsetFIXED MINDSET PEOPLE BELIEVE IN:
• Outcomes/ achievement
• Talents/abilities
• Look smart at all costs.
Get better / growth mindsetImprovement
Development
Resilience
“Working hard makes me smarter.”!
Effort is key!
Benefits of a growth mindset
Interest
Enjoyment
Deeper thinking
Persistence (grit)
Superior performance
Transition to 7th grade
Med students: organic chemistry
The power of mistakes
Fixed mindset: It’s about me
Hide mistakes and conceal deficiencies.
Give up: couch potato syndrome
Blame others or circumstances
Try to feel superior in some other way
Get better mindset: It’s about learning
Confront deficiencies.
Capitalize on mistakes.
Try harder.
Take responsibility.
Don’t feel the need to put others down.
The Mindset Paradox: The greatest threat to success is avoiding failure.
Praise the effortSTUDENTS PRAISED FOR INTELLIGENCE:
Selected easier tasks when given choice
Lied about their scores in an effort to look “smart”!STUDENTS PRAISED FOR EFFORT:
Overwhelmingly (90%) chose more challenging tasks
Showed higher levels of engagement and achievement
RelationshipsI’m perfect as I am (ego).
Criticism construed as “You don’t really love me.”
If you have to work at it, it wasn’t meant to be.
Problems indicate character flaws.
RelationshipsWhat do I need to learn to improve my relationship?
Wants someone to help them grow & learn new things.
HOW DO WE DO IT?CREATING A GROWTH MINDSET
Recognize fixed mindset thinking
“I have bad genes, there’s no way I can lose that much weight.”
“What if I fail?”
“I don’t want to embarrass myself.”
“I don’t have the willpower to stick with a healthy diet.”
“I’m just not as smart/lucky/talented.”
Reframe with a growth mindset
“No excuses this time … I’m getting started.”
“If I fail, it’s okay. Great accomplishments don’t happen without risk.”
“Forget diets. I’ll take it slow and making eating healthy a lifestyle.”
“If I don’t know how to do something, I’ll learn.”
!
The goal is mastery and competence.
Goal-setting wordsimprove
learn
progress
develop
become
grow
Parenting: what to sayWhat did you learn? Did you have fun?
“You must have tried very hard!”
“I love that you kept trying, even when it got difficult! Good job!”
“Wow that was easy! I’m sorry I wasted your time. Let’s do something that you can learn from!”
Effort, struggle, persistence despite setbacks
Strategies, choices
Choosing difficult tasks
Learning, improving
Things to praise
Stop comparing yourself to othersInstead, compare yourself to your past performances.
Take action1. Write it down.
2. Embrace learning — and failure.
3. Take calculated risks.
“PERSEVERANCE IS THE HARD WORK YOU DO AFTER YOU GET TIRED OF DOING THE HARD WORK YOU ALREADY DID.”
— Newt Gingrich