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.
Definition: The belief that your basic qualities can be cultivated through effort, strategy and help from others.
Insight: Everyone can change and grow.
Insight: Stretching for improvement and sticking to it, especially when things are not going well is one of the signs of a growth mindset.
Insight: Being able to identify personal strengths and weaknesses is a sign of a growth mindset.
Insight: A fixed mindset makes you concerned with how you will be judged, a growth mindset is concerned with improving.
Insight: People with a growth mindset seek information that will stretch their knowledge.
Insight: Failure is viewed as a learning experience.
Insight: Fixed mindset is only concerned with the outcome, growth mindset values the experience.
Insight: A growth mindset is not only about effort, or praising efforts. For children it is important to learn that trying new strategies when things are not working is also part of the growth journey.
Insight: Growth mindset is not telling children that they can do anything.
Principle: Hard work, trying new strategies, seeking feedback.
Principle: Avoid praising effort that is not there.
Insight: Mindset often derives from how we are parented or taught at school. If you were praised for getting things correct you might develop more of a fixed mindset, if efforts were praised then you might develop a growth mindset.
Insight: For a growth mindset, failure doesn't mean abandoning ship, but an indication that a different approach or more effort is required.
Insight: You can train a growth mindset.
Principle: Use growth mindset language: e.g. "I am not sure how to do this yet"; "I am willing to learn and ask for help".
Principle: Listen to constructive criticism.
Insight: Seeking feedback is important for anyone with a growth mindset.
Insight: A growth mindset is key to long-term success and happiness.
Insight: A growth mindset means to derive pleasure from improving, rather than being praised.
Insight: Fixed mindset believes that traits are fixed; a growth mindset believes that traits can be developed through effort, guidance, and persistence.
Insight: With a growth mindset we have the ability to improve in anything.
Insight: Most of us carry family patterns and mindset without realising it.
Insight: People with a growth mindset believe that hard work is a prerequisite to success, that hard work provokes talent.
Insight: People with a growth mindset tend to be more persistent and resilient, particularly in the face of adversity.
Insight: Mistakes and failures are seen as part of the learning process.
Insight: People with a growth mindset actively seek new challenges.
Insight: Students with a growth mindset tend to improve year on year.
Insight: Fixed mindset students tend to use negative self talk when things are difficult, growth mindset students persevere.
Insight: Common fixed mindset traits: believes intelligence is static; avoids challenges; gives up; ignores feedback; feels threatened by others; achieves less than potential.
Insight: Common growth mindset traits: believes intelligence can grow; embraces challenges; persists; sees effort as a pathway to mastery; uses feedback to learn; finds inspiration from others; high achiever.
Insight: The role of a leader is to grow other leaders.
Insight: Leadership is about believing that everyone has the same capacity for growth and coaching that growth.
Insight: People that embrace personal growth take others with them.
Principle: Actively enroll in programs that are designed to transform you.
Principle: Make transformation a focus.
Insight: People with a growth mindset are more likely to keep going when facing a challenge or difficulty.
Insight: There is nothing that you are fundamentally incapable of learning or doing. You will improve eventually with effort.
Insight: People with a growth mindset have the capacity to handle massive change.
Insight: Those with a growth mindset believe that a persons qualities can be built through effort.
Insight: People that are open to the idea of growth are most likely to grow.
Insight: Learning about neuroplasticity (the ability of the brain to change and develop) at a young age can help reduce stress, anxiety, and improve school grades.
Insight: A growth mindset enables you to view failure as an opportunity to learn.
Insight: A growth mindset enables you to see everything as trainable with practice.
Insight: People with a growth mindset love a challenge and don't fear failure. They believe they can learn and improve.
Insight: People with a growth mindset believe that skill grows with practice and persistence.
Insight: Research shows that the human brain physically changes with practice (plasticity).
Key Insights & Principles
Learning & personal growth
A growth mindset helps overcome the challenges that every learning process involves.
You can get better at anything.
A growth mindset means looking for information that expands knowledge rather than that which confirms what is already known.
Embracing feedback is necessary for growth.
Seek help and feedback.
Train your mindset through the language you use.
Recognise your fixed mindset triggers.
Leadership
Building teams with a growth mindset provides a stronger chance of success.
Leaders should not stop learning.
Coach for growth.
Embrace and demonstrate your own personal growth.
Parenting & Child Development
Mindset often derives from how we are parented or taught at school.
Fostering a growth mindset is not telling kids that they can do anything.
Mindset can create positive or negative cycles of learning, and greatly determine outcomes.
A growth mindset can reduce depression and anxiety in kids.
Encourage: genuine effort, trying new strategies, asking for help.
