How About Mindset

Does It Play A Role?

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A week ago, I wrote about the fear and anxiety I experience in many areas of my life. I identified two areas of thinking that could lessen them: self-belief and mindset. In the previous article, we discussed believing in the ability to meet one’s goals or self-efficacy—a focus that impacts success or failure, growth, and attitude.

Today, we’ll cover the second area: mindset—the set of beliefs people rely on to make sense of the world and themselves.

The noted American psychologist Carol Dweck describes two types of mindsets: fixed and growth.

In summary, a fixed mindset says my essential qualities are permanent. A growth mindset says I can improve, expand, hone inherent talents and gifts, and add new ones.

With time, effort, and practice, people with a growth mindset accomplish things previously thought impossible - they don't just believe it; they live it.

The article How To Develop A Growth Mindset Step By Step offers a way forward.

I read that mentally practicing what I fear over and over can make a difference.

The article, Some People Have a Fixed Mindset, and Some Have a Growth Mindset. Which one are you? is a good resource.

Karen Allen, a growth mindset coach, has written an informative article entitled 20 Subtle Benefits of Having a Growth Mindset.

Developing a growth mindset is a work in progress as I figure out who and what I want to be at this stage in my life. Next Friday, I want to share the story of a young woman and her mindset.

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