Use the power of "yet"

Use the power of "yet": When faced with a challenge or a skill you haven't mastered, add the word "yet" to your statements. For example, "I haven't learned this skill yet." This simple addition can shift your mindset from fixed to growth.

— from The Mind in the Cockpit

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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 old idea that willpower or ability is simply an inborn trait you either have or don't is, the research now shows, plainly false; the brain itself is plastic, and behavior is far more malleable than we were ever taught. […] Schedule the conditions for insight. Since the best realizations arrive when the mind is relaxed and unhurried, build in the walk, the shower, the daydream; and turn experience into wisdom by actually reflecting on it, rather than just accumulating it. Adopt the growth mindset deliberately. Learn to hear the voice of the fixed mindset — you can't, you're not good enough, don't risk looking stupid — and answer it with the word yet. Treat ability as something you build, not something you were issued. — The Mind in the Cockpit

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