Mindset Matters

Mindsets are BeliefsBeliefs about yourself and your most basic qualities. Think about intelligence, talents, personality.

• ARE THESE QUALITIES SIMPLY FIXED TRAITS, CARVED IN STONE?

• ARE THEY THINGS YOU CAN CULTIVATE THROUGHOUT YOUR LIFE?

Fixed Mindset

Growth Mindset

Their Traits Are Given

Have a certain amount of brains and talent and that nothing can change

If they have a lot, they’re all set, but if they don’t… ehhh

See their Qualities as things that can be developed through their dedication and effort

They’re happy if they’re brainy or talented, but that’s just the starting point

They spend their time documenting their intelligence or talent instead of developing them.They also believe that talent alone creates success—without effort.

This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment. Teaching a growth mindset creates motivation and productivity, and enhances relationships.

“People in this mindset worry about their traits and how adequate they are. They have something to prove to themselves and others.”

“People in this mindset worry about their traits and how adequate they are. They have something to prove to themselves and others.”

FIXED MINDSET AT WORK…..

• Will I succeed or fail?• Will I look smart or dumb? • Will I be accepted or rejected? • Will I feel like a winner or a loser?

But doesn’t our society value intelligence, personality and character? Isn’t it normal to want these traits?

GROWTH MINDSETWORKING….

• Do people with a growth mindset believe that anyone can be anything, that anyone with proper motivation or education can become Einstein or Beethoven?

A person’s true talent is unknown(And Unknowable)

What does this mean for me?

Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?

Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them?

Why look for friends or partners who will just shore up your self-esteem instead of ones who will also

challenge you to grow?

And why seek out the tried and true, instead of experiences that will stretch you?

FROM A FIXED MINDSET….

I Will Blame this Keynote for Making me Sleepy…

From a FIXED MINDSET to GROWTHin 4 Steps

Step 1: Learn how to hear your FIXED MINDSET Voice

As you approach a challenge:

“Are you sure you can do it? Maybe you don’t have the talent.” “What if you fail—you’ll be a failure” “People will laugh at you for thinking you had talent.” “If you don’t try, you can protect yourself and keep your dignity.”

As you hit a setback:

“This would have been a snap if you really had talent.” “You see, I told you it was a risk. Now you’ve gone and shown the world how limited you are.” “ It’s not too late to back out, make excuses, and try to regain your dignity.”

As you face criticism:

“It’s not my fault. It was something or someone else’s fault.” “Who do they think they are? I’ll put them in their place.” You hear others say: “I’m really disappointed in you. I thought you were capable but now I see you’re not.”

Step 2: Recognize that you have a CHOICE

HOW TO INTERPRET SETBACKS,

CHALLENGERS AND CRITICISMIS YOUR CHOICE

Step 3: Talk back to your FIXED MINDSET voice with GROWTH

“Are you sure you can do

it? Maybe you don’t

have the talent.”

I’m not sure I can do it

now, but I think I can

learn to with time and

effort.”

Step 3: Talk back to your FIXED MINDSET voice with GROWTH

“What if you fail— you’ll be a Failure”

The Most Successful people I know had failures along the

way.”

Step 3: Talk back to your FIXED MINDSET voice with GROWTH

“If you don’t try, you can protect yourself and keep your dignity.”

“If I don’t try, I automatically fail. Where’s the dignity in that?”

Step 3: Talk back to your FIXED MINDSET voice with GROWTH

“This would have been a snap if you really had talent.”

The best way to develop my talent is to stretch myself out of comfort zone and practicing new things.”

Step 3: Talk back to your FIXED MINDSET voice with GROWTH

“It’s not my fault. It was something or someone else’s fault.”

“If I Don’t take Responsibility can’t fix it. Let me listen—however painful it is—and learn whatever I can.”

Step 4: Take the GROWTH MINDSET action

Over time, which voice you pay attention to

becomes pretty much your choice and it will

define who you are becoming

There is no Secret Formula

Practice hearing both voices, and practice acting on the growth mindset and find a

way that works for you

Some Questions for Thought

15

When do you usually feel smart?

When you’re doing something flawlessly or when you’re learning something new?

#1

Do you ever feel superior to other people?

#2

Are you a person who tends to avoid responsibility for your problems or failures by making excuses or blaming others?

#3

Did you ever label yourself a failure or loser after something negative happened?

#4

Does your joy in AIESEC come from playing your hardest and doing your best or from “winning”?

#5

Do you do your best when things are going for you or against you? #6

Do you take losses really hard?

WHY

What do losses mean about you, your abilities, or your image of yourself?

#7

Do you think leaders are born not made, as in “a born leader”? Why? #8

What would you do if you found out your (fixed-mindset) leader thinks you have a bad attitude, a losing personality, no talent for the job?

#9

Do you use feeling bad as a reason for doing nothing? #1

0

Have you closed yourself off to certain relationships because you expect perfection—total alignment in every way?

#11

Can you take criticism from others?

#12

Do you expect the people closer to you to read your mind?

#13

Do you get stuck in a rejection— do you feel branded by it, do you ruminate about it and harbor feelings of revenge?

#14

What assumptions have you made about your leader, team-mates or people that you lead —about roles, responsibilities, expectations— but never discussed them with them?

#15

Based on this LEAD session:what could you do now

to help the people around you and the ones you impact develop a growth mindset?

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at all.

Do not let the hero in your soul perish in lonely frustration for the life you deserved and have never been able to reach.

The world you desire can be won.It exists. It is real. It is possible. It is yours!

- Ayn Rand

The Power OF:

YET

The Power YET:We’re not good at...

We can’t do it... We’ve tried but it didn’t work ...We haven’t achieved our goals ...

The Power YET: I’m not good at it YET

I can’t do this YET I’ve tried but it hasn’t worked YETI haven’t achieved my goals YET

Mindset by Carol DweckRecommended Reading:

#YouCanLearnAnything

#ThePowerOfYet