A Growth Mindset

Afer previously detailing traits of a fixed mindset, let’s have a quick look at a growth mindset.

Here’s a powerful line:

“When you have a growth mindset, your past doesn’t define your future”

Someone with a growth mindset views intelligence, abilities, and talents as learnable and capable of improvement through effort. On the other hand, someone with a fixed mindset views those same traits as inherently stable and unchangeable over time.

I look back at my football career and I played as left winger/attacker up until I was 16 years-old. Through injury to a teammate I had to play as a fullback/defender for a period.

I’d never played as a defender, but a growth mindset allowed me to view the mistakes I initially made as great learning opportunities to develop new skills. I went on to win many personal and team accolades….as a defender!

A growth mindset also keeps you humble, as there’s always more to learn and improve. You CAN teach any dog new tricks!

Take England International Kalvin Phillips. A positional change by Marcelo Bielsa turned Phillips from an average Championship midfielder into the best holding midfielder England had. Growth mindset with new skills learnt and as humble as they come.

In business, take an entrepreneur. You’ll need basic finance skills to create your business’s budget and prepare financial statements. If you have a fixed mindset, you may think, “I’ve never been good with math, let alone financial statements. I’m not cut out to run my own business.”

Now approach the situation with a growth mindset. You might think, “I don’t have a background in finance, but I can learn and practice those skills until I feel capable.”

Subtle difference but a transformative one!

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