Host Sheila Boysen-Rotelli delves into the importance of your mindset when pursuing success in your career and life. Everyone falls into one of two mindset categories. They either have a fixed mindset or a growth mindset. If you are someone that finds yourself having a fixed mindset, remember that you have the option to make a change!

Episode Highlights:

• Who you are on a day-to-day comes from the mindset that you have
• Fixed mindsets come from the belief that you are who you are and that's just the way it is
• Intelligence, personality, and creativity cannot be changed in a fixed mindset
• A fixed mindset causes someone to feel like they need to constantly prove themselves
• People in this mindset do not take criticism well and consider it an attack on their character
• A bad day can ruin your week and leads to no growth
• Success is based on intelligence, leading people to pick the easier problems to validate that intelligence
• Lacking confidence in the possibilities that the world presents to advance who you are as a person
• A growth mindset is a belief that you can change those characteristics and personality traits
• Everyone can use their unique experience and application to grow as people
• Learning and effort are encouraged by a growth mindset; people are more likely to pursue growth as individuals
• People in this mindset take criticism as an opportunity to grow and tend to embrace it as constructive
• You can get smarter by taking on bigger and harder challenges because failure is just an opportunity to grow
• A bad day presents an opportunity to do better tomorrow
• Depending on the area of your life, your views will vary, and your mindset will guide you
• It is possible to break out of those self-limiting thoughts and become more than you already are by developing your most basic abilities
• Focus on learning rather than achievement
• Depending on natural talent stops you from becoming who you could become with hard word
• No matter how small the belief, it can come to shape who you are as a person
• Your mindset as a small child can play a huge part in who you become as an adult
• Students in China were presented with the opportunity to take a free English course, those who accepted or rejected this showed the split between mindsets
• Mindsets can change just by educating yourself about the two mindsets and thinking in a new way
• A growth mindset is focused on the process and journey while a fixed mindset is focused on the destination
• All successful people who have embraced a growth mindset love what they do
• Fixed mindset people want to be on top while growth mindset people wind up there based on their enthusiasm for what they do
• Things are not going to go exactly how you plan them, but that doesn't mean it's a waste of time
• Growth mindset people value what they are doing at the moment rather than defining achievement by the end goal
• No one is born as the best in anything, but that doesn't stop people from achieving great things
• Wilma Rudolph, the fastest woman on earth, started her journey as a premature baby
• Actions and words in children's lives influence how they think about themselves
• Teach children to love learning and embrace challenges rather than trying to insert confidence with compliments
• Learn to enjoy the process and embrace that growth mindset; your whole life will change

3 Key Points:

1. There are two types of mindsets in this world: a fixed mindset and a growth mindset.
2. People with a fixed mindset tend to shy away from big challenges for fear of failure, while people with a growth mindset run towards those challenges as opportunities to grow.
3. You can change your mindset whenever you want. Just because have a fixed mindset now does not mean you can't adopt a growth mindset.

Tweetable Quotes:

• "As we navigate the bumps throughout our life, throughout our career, our mindset really plays a huge role in our resilience." - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli
• That mindset about being artistic and creative will impact and shape your ability to become more artistic and creative." - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli
• "The growth mindset enables the converting of our setbacks and reframing those into potential future successes." - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli
• "A growth mindset, another way to look at this, is it allows you to love what you're doing." - Sheila Boysen-Rotelli

Resources Mentioned:

• Mindset (book)
• Contact Sheila at [email protected]
• Fast Track Your Job Search: fasttrackyourjobsearch.com