Speaker 1: I'm Sam Wood, and this is your motivational moment for
Speaker 1: this week, and we're going to talk about training your
Speaker 1: mindset for the best chance of success. Now, one thing
Speaker 1: that is crucial for determining our success is whether or
Speaker 1: not we have a fixed mindset or a growth mindset.
Speaker 1: And that's something that many of you may not have
Speaker 1: thought about before. It's something you may not have even
Speaker 1: thought which of those two camps do you fall into.
Speaker 1: So fixed mindset, they tend to believe that you either
Speaker 1: have something or you don't. You're born with this athletic
Speaker 1: prowess or you're not. You're born with self control or
Speaker 1: you're not. This is just how I am. Nothing I
Speaker 1: can do about it, full stop. So if you're fixed mindset,
Speaker 1: you avoid starting things that might be challenging, you give
Speaker 1: up quickly once you do things and they fail, or
Speaker 1: you experience any kind of setback, no matter how big osmall.
Speaker 1: You tend to look at things that other people have
Speaker 1: achieved as a threat, as though sometimes they don't deserve them,
Speaker 1: or they only have that because they were born with
Speaker 1: this natural gift. There's not necessarily been any hard work
Speaker 1: associated with that success for that particular person. In that
Speaker 1: particular area of their life. The growth mindset type of
Speaker 1: person believes that things can be learned, talent can be learned,
Speaker 1: and you can absolutely improve in anything. People with a
Speaker 1: growth mindset they embrace new things, even when it's high
Speaker 1: risk or they might fail numerous occasions. They see setbacks
Speaker 1: as temporary but a necessary part of the success. They
Speaker 1: see other success rather than a threat, as an inspiration.
Speaker 1: And the growth mindset person who's often seen by the
Speaker 1: fixed mindset person as someone that has a really large
Speaker 1: skill set or is incredibly successful, I think there would
Speaker 1: still be some of us. I think most of us
Speaker 1: are in a camp one or the other. Which category
Speaker 1: do you fall into? You're a fixed mindset or a
Speaker 1: growth mindset And the most important part of this little
Speaker 1: motivational moment is to actually understand and accept that if
Speaker 1: you are finding that you're a fixed mindset person, that
Speaker 1: you can change. And I guess it's the sort of
Speaker 1: irony because a fixed mindset person may not think that
Speaker 1: they can change because they feel like this is just
Speaker 1: how I am, this is how I was born, these
Speaker 1: are all the things that just come with me, and
Speaker 1: I can't change it, and it's absolute nonsense. Might not
Speaker 1: be a clickifing your job, but you can absolutely get
Speaker 1: there over time. And one of the first things that
Speaker 1: you can do to help you make this shift, because
Speaker 1: it might not be an overnight shift, but one of
Speaker 1: the first things you can do to help you make
Speaker 1: this shift is change the way you look at failure.
Speaker 1: Which brings us to our little list of tasks that
Speaker 1: I have for you this week. So this is for
Speaker 1: all of you fixed mindset people, if that's you, I
Speaker 1: actually want you to consider something that you have done
Speaker 1: that you deemed a failure, something that you've tried recently
Speaker 1: and you've failed and you've given up on, and you're
Speaker 1: going to bring that task back out of the drawer.
Speaker 1: You're going to dust it off, and you're going to
Speaker 1: do two things. The first thing is you're going to
Speaker 1: look at why you've failed last time, and you're going
Speaker 1: to ask yourself, what is one thing that I can
Speaker 1: learn from that failure that's going to help me succeed
Speaker 1: when I try it again. Because the second thing you
Speaker 1: do is you're going to have another crack at It
Speaker 1: doesn't matter what it is. It can be in your
Speaker 1: fitness life, it could be in your personal life. It
Speaker 1: can be in your business life. It doesn't matter. You're
Speaker 1: going to pick one thing. So we're looking at the
Speaker 1: failure as an opportunity to learn rather than a full
Speaker 1: stop in the quest to achieve it. So that's your homework,
Speaker 1: or you listen to us for that week. I can't
Speaker 1: wait to hear how you go spe to your son.
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