Key Learning

Key Learning: Fixed mindset individuals tend to avoid challenges, give up easily, see effort as fruitless, ignore useful feedback, and feel threatened by the success of others. Growth mindset individuals embrace challenges, persist in the face of setbacks, see effort as the path to mastery, learn from criticism, and find lessons and inspiration in others' success.

— from The Mind in the Cockpit

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The growth mindset believes those abilities can be developed through effort, and so it runs toward challenge instead of away from it. The difference is not small; the fixed-mindset pilot avoids the hard maneuvers, gives up when it gets steep, and treats every failure as a verdict on his worth, while the growth-mindset pilot treats the same failure as information. Confucius said it in seven words — the man who believes he can, and the man who believes he can't, are both right — and the most powerful single word you can add to "I can't do this" is the word yet. — The Mind in the Cockpit

The first is the fixed mindset — the belief that your abilities and intelligence are carved in stone, that you are born with a certain amount and that is that. People in its grip avoid challenges (in case they are exposed), give up easily, see effort as fruitless, ignore useful feedback, and feel threatened by the success of others. The second is the growth mindset — the belief that abilities are developed through effort, learning, and training. […] The second is the growth mindset — the belief that abilities are developed through effort, learning, and training. People who hold it embrace challenges, persist through setbacks, treat effort as the path to mastery, learn from criticism, and find inspiration rather than threat in others who do well. You can tell which one you carry by watching your reaction to failure. — Expanding Your Range (Growth/Change/Education/Learning/Habit)

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