In sports it’s extremely important that athletes have a growth mindset and not a fixed mindset. Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D. in her preeminent book on mindset describes the growth mindset as believing that self-improvement is a product of hard work. In addition, when you have a growth mindset you also believe that the innate talents […]
For goal-oriented people, purpose drives almost everything they do. If something doesn’t have a purpose, then goal-oriented people have little motivation. What’s more, when you motivate yourself like this, you must also have a mindset that’s willing to embrace hard work. For goal-oriented people purpose is much more than checking off an item on a to-do […]
The mindset of one who is working to become successful is different than the mindset of one who is working to stay successful. Becoming successful requires balancing the growth vs. fixed mindset, the what vs. why mindset, the building strengths vs. fixing weaknesses mindset, and the tasks vs. ego mindset. These are all mindsets that […]