Embracing Growth Mindset: Teaching Resilience and Possibility

This chapter explores the significance of a growth mindset for personal development and resilience, especially in children. It provides practical methods for teaching and cultivating this mindset, emphasizing the role of experience and encouraging language in fostering openness to challenges and change.

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You want your kid to magically become some badass, challenge-eating machine?

Lectures don’t work, praise gets boring, and perfectionism is just another word for control freak. We dive into the reality behind both teaching and practicing a growth mindset.

Firstly it starts with you living a growth mindset so this episode is primarily a masterclass on building one yourself.

Self-efficacy is crucial for resilience and overcoming setbacks that hit us everyday. Yet there are so many nuances when you try to teach a growth mindset. The wrong praise makes things worse, Even being too strict about growth mindset practices can make things worse...

Ideas explored:

- Use everyday conversation to challenge the "rules" of life

- Turn failures into stories of possibility, not shame

- How to balance giving praise and rewards vs. letting them build grit and intrinsic motivation.

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