We all experience disasters in our lives where we must keep control, embrace challenges, and choose happiness over victimhood.

In this episode of the Growth Mindset, we are guided by the brilliant Gina Gardiner. Despite a crippling ski accident when she was young, she became an award-winning headteacher and life coach. She helped inspire thousands of young minds and actively taught the Growth Mindset for many decades.

She shares her most inspiring lessons and stories of resilience and determination and focuses on teaching how to live a happy and fulfilling life, no matter what challenges we face.

We are the authors of our own life stories, and we can choose to be happy, no matter what. Gina also teaches us the importance of asking for help, and of surrounding ourselves with positive people.

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On the growth mindset podcast with Sam Webster Harris, we explore the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement. Success and happiness is a state of mind unique to ourselves and is our responsibility to create.

Through a process of honest self-reflection of what is holding us back and what is driving us forward, we can lose the ego and build awareness of how to be the best we can be.

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Show: Growth Mindset, psychology of self-improvement

Episode: Embracing Setbacks and Challenges Positively: Growth Mindset Essentials. How we determine our happiness and success regardless of the disasters in our life.

Chapters:

00:00 Recognising happiness as a choice

01:59 Cultivating Self-Excellence and Self-Connection

02:38 Lessons from Near-Death Experiences

04:01 Dealing with paralysis

05:56 Liberating Life from Judgment

09:02 Neuro Linguistic Programming

11:06 Your Only Limit Is You

13:49 The Power of Belief

14:35 Resilience Lessons from James Dyson

15:14 A Shared Journey

18:27 4 Psychological Motivators

21:39 Embrace Authenticity

23:12 Beginning Self Transformation

27:15 The Choice of Happiness

29:32 Seizing Momentum in the Morning

30:35 Battling Negativity

34:48 The Catalyst for Gina Gardiner's School Award

34:54 Building a Springboard to Success

39:46 Teaching Growth Mindset to Kids

42:50 Gina's Earliest Memory

43:19 The Kindness of Small Acts

45:35 How to Expand Your Comfort Zone 

47:19 Be the Author of Your Own Story

Topics:

Growth Mindset for Kids, Author of Your Own Story, Building Momentum, Dealing with Disabilities, Resilience and Mental Toughness, Staying Calm in Life-Threatening Situations, Life in a Wheelchair, Spreading Positivity and Happiness, Teaching and Running a School, Life of HeadTeachers, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Award Winning Education, Acts of Kindness

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