Entrepreneurial Mindset for Transformative Education with Stephen Carter

We will drift--the only way to avoid drift is to stay out of the water, but with the entrepreneurial mindset, we are biased for action which means we will be getting in the water and chasing down our dreams. It also means we will fall victim to longshore drift and regularly get off track. With a system of calibration, we can ensure we get back on track and progress toward our goals.

When it comes to the entrepreneurial mindset, Jacob Kantor has lived this since coming to America at the age of five. As he tells his impactful story of entrepreneurship, he touches on the importance of effort and the role of having a growth mindset. Throughout this conversation, he showcases the power of helping other people along the way and how this plays into his own journey of success in the real estate and ed tech space.
Learn more about Jacob by following him on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thejacobkantor/
Check out his website at https://edlit.org/

Knowing what you don't want is not the same as knowing what you do want. When it comes to vision, it is essential that we look at what we want to be true in our lives and then craft a plan to bring that truth about. This involves determining what we want and then determining why we want that--once we do that, we can establish the habits and daily actions necessary to bring it about.

When we focus on continuous improvement, day after day after day, what we are really doing is fine tuning our system. Our system, or our daily habits, is the engine that will drive us toward our goals. By establishing a goal, we are essentially putting a destination into the GPS of our life, but the vehicle to get us to that destination is our system. 

When we focus in on grit with intention, we begin to move the needle. When we do this with consistency, it leads to impact. When we create impact, we change the world. Taken from a keynote talk on the topic of grit, this episode gets into clear tangible ways we can work on becoming grittier in our own lives.

When we start with a growth mindset, we understand that grit can be taught and developed-it is not a fixed trait but rather something we can foster through intentionality in order to create lasting impact. This episode is taken from a recent keynote talk I gave to a group of educators around how to intentionally teach grit to students.

Entrepreneurs are biased for action and this means going out and SEEKING opportunity--not just sitting back and waiting for opportunity to come to them. Armed with a growth mindset, with the necessary grit, and a redefinition of failure, we can all look at problems and see them as opportunities. Once we do this, we become unstoppable. Let's Go!

Curiosity is a skill and like any skill, it can be developed. But in order for it to be developed, we have to remove the blockers that often keep us from embracing a curious mindset. When we tackle three blockers in particular (our phones, our routines, our comfort zones), we are poised to ask the key questions of curiosity in order to fully seek opportunity.

If we are to develop our entrepreneurial mindset and experience the transformation that comes from the renewing of our mind, then developing our grit is essential. But moving from become gritty for the sake of being gritty, we must tether our growth and development of grit to a larger purpose, which Angela Duckworth defines as "intention to contribute to the wellbeing of others." When this is coupled with a passion, we become grittier. Let's Go!

You are an average of the five people you hang around with the most--this stems from the law of influence. If you could directly influence your overall happiness, your net worth, and your quality of relationships, would you do what it takes? It is really just about surrounding yourself with the right people.