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But he had a fixed mindset about himself and his coaching ability. The team was his product, and they had to prove his ability every time out.

Dan Sullivan promotes a concept I love around building an abundance mind-set as opposed to a scarcity mind-set. He shares that the scarcity mind-set is characterized by envy, guilt, and anger, which keeps you small and limits your ability to grow. The abundance mind-set, the mind-set of always giving 100 percent, is characterized by gratefulness, c

Believing that your qualities are carved in stone—the fixed mindset—creates an urgency to prove yourself over and over.

Dweck’s research has shown that when challenged by difficult material, learning theorists are far more likely to rise to the level of the game, while entity theorists are more brittle and prone to quit.

prestaram atenção rigorosa em informações que podiam aumentar seu conhecimento.

And the only chance to improve in something is getting timely and concrete feedback. Seeking feedback, not avoiding it, is the first virtue of anyone who wants to learn, or in the more general terms of psychologist Carol Dweck, to grow.

What’s more, instead of trying to learn from and repair their failures, people with the fixed mindset may simply try to repair their self-esteem. For example, they may go looking for people who are even worse off than they are.

Suddenly we realized that there were two meanings to ability, not one: a fixed ability that needs to be proven, and a changeable ability that can be developed through learning.