Maximize Personal Growth: Cultivating a Growth Mentality

Jane LeeFounder, Uplifter Labs

www.uplifter.io

Introduction

Founder of the Positive Psychology and Resilience meetup

Founder of Uplifter Labs:

an app training positivity and personal growth through daily exercises and self-awareness

Exercise

For each, write 2 things

1.You are good at

2.You aren’t good at

3.You aren’t good at, but wished you were

Exercise

1. I’m good at talking to people and standing up for the underdog

2. I’m not good at sports or programming

3. I’m not good at art & relationships

- Borne out of an aversion to failure

- Keeps us from exploring a beautiful part

of ourselves

Fixed Mindset (Dweck)

Believe their basic qualities like intelligence or talent are fixed traits

Talent alone, not effort, creates success

Encouraged by praise like “You did so well, you are so intelligent”

Fixed Mindset (Jane)

You = Gollum

Identity Praise = The Ring

“My precious”

Trait becomes part of your identity – you will do everything to defend it.

Including lie, cheat, and avoid learning circumstances.

Growth Mindset (Dweck)

Basic abilities developed through dedication and hard work

Brains and talents come in many shapes and sizes, but excellence is made

Encouraged by comments like “you did so well, you worked so hard!”

Growth Mindset (Jane)

You = Gandalf

Identity Praise = Ring

Don’t want it. Instead, you are seeking out wisdom & learning experiences that will provide challenges and

just being an awesome wizard.

Study (Dweck)

Students were given a hard test

Most students got it wrong

Differences upon debriefing

Fixed-did not listen to information that could help them-Ignored information that could help them

Growth-Attentive to information that could help them expand knowledge whether right or wrong!

Students

Fixed-did not listen to information that could help them-Ignored information that could help them

Growth-Attentive to information that could help them expand knowledge whether right or wrong!

Exercise

For each item, explain why you are good at it

Take 2 items from not good list

- How can you make them better?

What sets successful people apart?

Grit:

The passion and persistence to commit to long-term goals through effort.

Angela Duckworth studied people in the army, spelling bee contestants, and teachers

most successful had higher levels of grit

Steps to becoming successful

1. Trust Yourself- Know your passion, don’t pay

attention to the haters

1. Dare yourself to have a goal

2. Try, Fail, and Learn. Repeat.

No one can predict success

Charles Darwin was an average student

Beatles played in small clubs for 3 years

AirBnB was rejected by all VCs they approached

Pandora got rejected by 300 VCs

No one can predict success

I’ve missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I’ve been trusted to take the winning shot in the game and missed. I’ve failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

- Michael Jordan

No one can predict success

I’ve not failed. I’ve only found 10,000 ways that will not work.-Thomas Edison

(found 2998 ways that didn’t work – 2 did)

Exercise

Growth mind-set talk:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJKIgtCpwvg