Welcome back everybody to the Greg McEwan podcast. I am here with you on this journey to learn,

to grow so that we can accomplish our highest contribution in life, our mission in life.

Along the way one of the things I have learned is that if we only focus on performing, our performance

suffers. That idea is not new to me, but that precise language is from Eduardo Braseno. He's our

guest today in part one of a two-part interview. Before Eduardo became an author, a Ted Speaker,

a thought leader in his own rights, his life was totally changed as was mine by the research

of Carol Dweck. Carol Dweck is currently a professor at Stanford and formerly of Columbia,

who is best known for the growth mindset. That idea that intelligence itself is not fixed,

that it can grow, that we can become more intelligent after years of helping to take those

ideas out into the world, out into organizations. Eduardo is on his own journey, and it's a

journey that he's inviting us to go on. By the end of today's episode you will be able to grow your

skill level and your output simultaneously and for the long term. Let's get to it.

It's such a delight to see this podcast growing, reaching ever more people.

It's now consistently right at the top of the education podcasts in America, at the very top

of the self-improvement podcasts. And that's because of you. And I'm so grateful to be on this

journey with you. I encourage you to subscribe to the podcast if you're new to it and to bring other

people along with you on this journey. Eduardo, welcome to the podcast.

Thank you, Greg. It's great to be here. Thank you for having me. Are you right that

it's one of the biggest lies we tell ourselves? A hardy work, the better you'll do, but a lot of the

time working harder doesn't yield better results. It just leaves us exhausted. Why is that?

Well, you've written quite a bit about that and I've learned a lot about that too from you.

So thank you for your work on that. But what I realized at some point is I was working really,

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