Growth Mindset

The belief that personal qualities can be cultivated through effort and help from others. It is the opposite of a fixed mindset - the belief that those qualities are fixed in everyone.

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Key Insights & Principles

Learning & personal growth

1. A growth mindset helps overcome the challenges that every learning process involves.
2. You can get better at anything.
3. A growth mindset means looking for information that expands knowledge rather than that which confirms what is already known.
4. Embracing feedback is necessary for growth.

1. Seek help and feedback.
2. Train your mindset through the language you use.
3. Recognise your fixed mindset triggers.

Leadership

1. Building teams with a growth mindset provides a stronger chance of success.
2. Leaders should not stop learning.

1. Coach for growth.
2. Embrace and demonstrate your own personal growth.

Parenting & Child Development

1. Mindset often derives from how we are parented or taught at school.
2. Fostering a growth mindset is not telling kids that they can do anything.
3. Mindset can create positive or negative cycles of learning, and greatly determine outcomes.
4. A growth mindset can reduce depression and anxiety in kids.

1. Encourage: genuine effort, trying new strategies, asking for help.

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