Hi, I'm Sarah Ellis and I'm Helen Tupper and you're listening to the Squiggly Careers podcast. Each week we talk about a different topic to do with work and discuss practical ideas and actions to help you find your way through our increasingly squiggly world of work. And today we're going to be talking about beginners mindset. We're going to start with what it is, why it matters, and then we're going to share five ideas for action on how you can rediscover, restart, reboot, whichever re works for you, your beginner's mindset.

So let's start a little bit with defining beginner's mindset.

And we also thought it might be helpful to talk

about how we think beginners mindset is connected to, but different to growth mindset. And before we

even started this podcast, Helen and I had a 15 minute chat on that. So we'll try and keep it short.

Try and prasy what we've started to think about that. But let's start with beginners mindset

and just how we think

of beginners mindset. So our short and I think it's quite a work in progress definition at the

moment that we think about is a beginner's mindset is your ability to see things as if you're

starting from scratch. And then let me give you some more official definitions to kind of work with

and see whether you, if you don't like that one,

perhaps one of these will work a bit better for you.

An interesting report that Deloitte did actually about CEOs needing to have a beginner's mindset.

They say we define beginners mindset as an inclination to periodically question and reassess

deeply held theories, archetypes and conventions to devise new and fundamentally innovative

solutions. It's very deloitte, isn't it? It's very deloitte. It's very,

there's sometimes the language of like archetypes and conventions makes it

sound very serious. Starting from scratch is a language definitely. Be able to see things as if

you're starting from scratch. And then a lot of the work on beginners mindset or thinking, I suppose,

on beginners mindset comes from mindfulness or yoga originally. And probably the most famous quote on beginners mindset

comes from Shunru Suzuki, who was a Zen monk, teacher and author. And he says,

in the beginner's mind, there are many possibilities. But in the experts, there are a few.

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