Dr. E explains a personal view of a growth mindset, urging listeners to embrace struggle, grapple with internal and external barriers, and assess their readiness and capacity to receive and pursue meaningful growth.
A growth mindset for me starts with the willingness and the embracing of the struggle. You have to wrestle with all of the things, both internal and external, that might be preventing you from growing. If you are not willing, have a strong desire to do that, chances are your growth is limited.
Hello, doctor e here. And I am wanting to talk to you today about a growth mindset. What is a growth mindset? Well, first of all, we have to lay the structure or the foundation for what I mean when I use that phrase, growth mindset, one of my favorite quotes of all time is from Frederick Douglass, and it says, if there is no struggle, there is no progress. So a growth mindset for me starts with the willingness and the embracing of the struggle. If you are not willing, have a strong desire to do that, chances are your growth is going to be minimal, limited, or maybe not at all.
And so having the growth mindset for me starts with understanding or having a foundation like that Douglas quote, embracing the struggle. Now, once you have that understanding, you have to be willing to grapple. You have to be willing to wrestle with all of the things, both internal and external, that might be preventing you from growing and or that you might need to overcome to grow. Lots of internal things can be present for us. Usually. It could be our experiences, could be our expectations, could be the fact that maybe we aren't actually thinking we are worthy to grow or that we might be somehow not in the position to grow.
So embracing the struggle and understanding that in order to get to that mindset, you have to grapple with all of the limitations, all of the barriers, internal, external, mental, emotional, all of the things that might be holding you back. And then the second thing that you really need to do is to understand where and how that growth is taking you and whether or not it is for you. Many of us would like to grow. Many of us are wishing that we grow, but we're not necessarily in a position or a place to receive and embrace that growth opportunity.
And so what do you need to do to really assess your capacity and your competency to embrace that growth? And so if you grapple with those things, if you really wrestle with kind of where you are and some of those internal and external challenges and barriers, and then you step into that space of knowing that you are ready and deserve to grow and willing to challenge yourself, willing to work through and work past all of those barriers and not be defeated, even though you might be let down, even though it might look like you're being denied or deferred in some way, shape or form, you're not defeated and you don't give up.
So if you wrestle with that growth mindset, be willing to grapple, embrace the struggle, knowing that without struggle, there's no progress. I believe that mindset will take you a long way.
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