From the course: Real Estate: Developing a Growth Mindset

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The mindsets you develop are from your young life

The mindsets you develop are from your young life

From the course: Real Estate: Developing a Growth Mindset

The mindsets you develop are from your young life

- [Instructor] In order to change our mindset, we have to understand how it was formed in the first place. Today we won't be able to explore it in as much depth as Carol does in her book, but there's a very simple set of ideas we can explore that could help us realize how we arrived at our current mindset and set the stage for changing our mindset going forward. To begin with, we have to recognize that the mindsets we have about different things in our life, fixed or growth, began to be developed when we were children. As we grew up and grew from toddler, to adolescent, to adult, we heard statements and those statements affirmed a growth or a fixed mindset. So for example, as you grew up, you might've heard statements like these that actually affirm a fixed mindset. You might've heard something like, "Oh, you are really smart." "Oh, you're really good at this." "Ah, you're a natural." Can you see why those…

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