Train your growth mindset
Self-Help · Beginner
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Change your relationship with difficulty: treat effort as the path and mistakes as information, not as a verdict on your worth.
Micro-habits to get started
Small actions of a few minutes to start this habit:
Add a 'yet'
When you think 'I can't do this' or 'I'm not capable', add the word 'yet' at the end.
'Yet' reopens the door to learning and pulls the sentence out of a fixed mindset.
1 minTurn a mistake into data
After a slip-up during the day, ask what it teaches you and what you'd do differently, instead of what it says about you.
A mistake is information for improving, not a verdict on your ability.
2 minPraise the process
Acknowledge (in yourself or others) the effort and strategy used, not talent or an easy result.
Praising effort reinforces a growth mindset; praising 'being smart' locks it in place.
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