Eduardo Briceño, an author and TED speaker known for his insights on growth mindset, joins the conversation about balancing performance and learning. He discusses how staying solely in the performance zone can hinder progress. Eduardo emphasizes the transformational power of facing challenges, and he explores the critical difference between the learning and performance zones. Listeners will discover practical strategies for fostering growth, managing personal connections, and embracing discomfort to achieve greater mastery in their pursuits.
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Two Types of Effort
Working harder doesn't always yield better results, it can lead to exhaustion.
Focus on two types of effort: effort to perform and effort to learn.
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Performance Paradox
There are two zones: a learning zone and a performance zone.
Focusing only on performance leads to stagnation and hinders long-term productivity.
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Balancing Zones
Strive for a balance between the learning zone and the performance zone.
Pay attention to mistakes and seek feedback for continuous improvement.
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In this book, Carol S. Dweck introduces the concept of two mindsets: the fixed mindset and the growth mindset. People with a fixed mindset believe their abilities are static, while those with a growth mindset believe their abilities can be developed through effort and learning. Dweck shows how these mindsets influence success in school, work, sports, and personal relationships. She also discusses how to adopt a deeper, truer growth mindset, and how this can transform individual and organizational cultures. The book emphasizes the importance of perseverance, learning from failures, and embracing challenges as key components of the growth mindset[1][2][5].
Over the years one of the things I have learned is that if we only focus on performing, our performance suffers. That idea is not new to me, but that precise language is from Eduardo Briceño. He's our guest today in part one of a two part interview. Before Eduardo became an author, a TED speaker, a thought leader in his own rights, his life was totally changed, as was mine by the research of Carol Dweck. Carol Dweck is currently a professor at Stanford and formerly of Columbia, who is best known for the Growth Mindset, that idea that intelligence itself is not fixed, that it can grow, that we can become more intelligent after years of helping to take those ideas out into the world, out into organizations. Eduardo is on his own journey and it's a journey that he's inviting us to go on. By the end of today's episode, you will be able to grow your skill level and your output simultaneously and for the long term.
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