131: Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset

Shameless Leadership

Sara Dean

Self-improvement, How To, Business, Management, Education

4.7 • 800 Ratings

🗓️ 29 May 2017

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

I very unexpectedly ended up on crutches last week. Although, I guess it’s rare that anyone plans to be on crutches…. In any case, crutches were NOT in my plan as I trained for an upcoming 10K or planned a trip to the beach for the holiday weekend. But, I fell on my way to the bathroom in the middle of the night (#41goingon86) and badly sprained my ankle. I spent the night at the ER – like the overnight – from 2:30-7:30am on a Saturday night - the best time to land one’s self at the ER, right? I came home totally cool with my prognosis: no break (phew!!!), but a bad sprain, crutches for the foreseeable future, no weight bearing until I can get in to the orthopedist. There is a time in my life – ok MOST of my life – that this whole turn of events would have sent me into a massive tailspin. I’m not one to live life spontaneously or embrace roadblocks. I like control. Like, all. the. time. I have done a lot of work on myself in the last few years – work that allows me to take life in stride, even though that is not my nature. This work has pushed me to live my life in a Growth Mindset – seeing opportunity at every turn – even when I’m on my bedroom floor, screaming, in the fetal position, and about to barf because I’m sure I’ve broken my ankle in the middle of the night. Listen in to this episode to hear how YOU can adopt a Growth Mindset and get rid of your Fixed Mindset tendencies that might be holding you back. I share 7 different practices and mindset examples that illustrate the difference between a Growth Mindset and a Fixed Mindset. Understanding how to embrace a Growth Mindset will change everything about your life – from the way you parent (I give you some great examples) to the way you follow your professional ambitions. This is good stuff, friends. Links Mentioned: Book: Mindset by Carol Dweck Sponsor: Aaptiv.com (use code SMA30 for a free 30 day trial) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:32.5	to give you and other passionate, dedicated moms the tools you need to bridge the gap between
0:37.0	motherhood and living the life of your dreams. I'm also here to help you be a little more shameless
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1:07.6	Hello, Shameless Moms.
1:09.2	I'm here today with myself, my gimppy leg and two little crutches. So I got up to go to the
1:16.5	bathroom at two in the morning on Saturday night and my right foot was asleep and I didn't know it was
1:21.7	asleep. I got out of bed and landed on my foot basically backwards. So I hit the ground toes first and my ankle bent the wrong direction and I went crashing
1:29.9	onto the floor and immediately thought I was going to throw up or have diarrhea or pass out or
1:36.6	all of the above.
1:38.0	So I went to the emergency room in the middle of the night on Saturday night with an old lady
1:42.3	kind of an injury, not like a drunken
1:44.3	escapade kind of an injury like most people in the emergency room on a Saturday night.
1:48.5	And I got to be there for five hours because it was like their most busy night that they'd
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