Welcome to the happiness podcast. I'm Dr. Robert Puff. Our minds have such an ability to

influence our lives. It's amazing how powerful our minds and our thoughts can be.

And how we look at the world will shape our world.

So in today's episode, we're going to look at the power of our minds

and how to make sure they're working for us instead of against us. I want to start with an example, a way of looking

at our world and how it can affect us. And it's about being a student. Let's call a student

one, Jim. He's not being raised in the best environment and his

parents tell him that he's actually not very smart. They don't think he's going to

do well in school. He should probably just get out there and get a blue-collar job so he can

support himself. So along the way, he takes some classes and he happens to get into a math class and he does

pretty well at it. He actually likes it. But he's been told that he's not very smart.

So instead of applying himself, he said, well, I'm actually not very smart, so I'm not going to try very hard, so he doesn't.

And of course, then his grades don't do as well and it

reinforces his belief, his fixed mindset, that he's not very smart. So in Jim's case, his fixed

mindset causes him to fail at something he could probably do quite

well at if he applied himself.

Now let's talk about Lotus.

Lotus is told by her parents over and over again that she is so smart.

She's brilliant.

She can just be anything she wants in life because she is

innately intelligent and she's going to go far in life.

And she does. She does well in school. She keeps being

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