Growth Advantage Mindset?
Your mindset, or an established set of attitudes, begins with your natural traits but develops over time based on life experiences. Your mindset is a lens through which you see and understand the world - it interprets and decodes everything you perceive - so it’s quite powerful!
Growth mindset, pioneered by psychologist and author Carol Dweck, has been adapted across disciplines and is a valuable framework to understanding learning and development. Here are a few important points about mindset:
Mindset does not define you - you are not what you think. You may hold a fixed mindset on a particular topic, but that’s something you hold, not something you are.
Mindset can be maintained by habit, influenced by events, and changed by choice. A particular mindset can go unchallenged for a lifetime, or can be rocked by an experience, or can be grown by intentional action.
Mindset is not uniformly fixed or growth about everything. You can hold a growth mindset about your ability to dance while holding a fixed mindset about your ability to speak publicly. You can hold a growth mindset about your potential for success while holding a fixed mindset about the potential of others - and vice-versa.
What’s Your Advantage Mindset?
As you explore the differences between Fixed and Growth Advantage Mindsets, you may find some uncomfortable. The initial assessment of Advantage Mindset is its own growth experience - and growth stretches us. Take the assessment, read your report, and then explore this elephant more closely with guided reflections and by reading the book.