From the course: Real Estate: Developing a Growth Mindset

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Developing a growth mindset to excel

Developing a growth mindset to excel

- [Instructor] Another basic tenent of mindset theory is that a person's mindset is directly related to how they view challenges, problems, and their solutions. Imagine that you had a static mindset, for example, and you felt that, hey, I'm as good at baseball as I'll ever be. How hard would you really try to get better at baseball? Would you put any effort at all or do you find an opportunity to avoid the sport of baseball at all costs? What if on the other hand you felt that you could learn with a little bit of effort, that you could grow in that ability, that you could develop that process. Would you put in effort to learn baseball, to practice baseball? Would you be more likely to put energy in that direction? Well, the evidence gives a resounding yes. In Carol Dweck's theory of mindset, we focus on two very specific mindsets. One is a fixed mindset and the other is a growth mindset, I've already introduced them.…

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