This is Steveer Robbins. Welcome to the Get It Done Guys quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.

Today's tip is about how a slight change in thinking can dramatically change your ability to get results.

Know thyself. My guidance counselor in high school was very clear on this.

And boy, did I know myself. I'm smart.

I'm bad at sports. And I'm so far on the nerd side of the spectrum that my thick Coke

bottle glasses need to wear thick Coke bottle glasses. And if you notice carefully, all of these

things that I knew about myself were unchangeable definitions of my being. And this is called a fixed mindset.

It's the belief that my traits, my skills, and my general awesomeness is set in stone and can't

be changed. Either I'm smart or I'm not. And if not, there's nothing that can be done.

Now even if that were true, and it's not, thinking with a fixed mindset sucks. Psychologist

Carol Dweck has been researching this for years. When someone believes that their skills and abilities

are innate, they actually give up more easily when they meet a challenge, because they conclude,

well, this is just who I am, and that's the limit that I have, rather than concluding,

I can learn to overcome this challenge. Overcoming the fixed mindset is easy. You just adopt a

growth mindset instead. That's how people become the superhero version of themselves,

and we all want to be the superhero versions of ourselves. The costumes look way cooler,

but of course, we never, ever

wear capes. A growth mindset is the belief that you can grow and change through education

and practice. With a growth mindset, you adapt to challenges by learning and setting new goals. You

respond differently to failure. Instead of concluding that there's nothing to be done, you ask,

hmm, what can I do differently? You can change a fixed mindset into a growth mindset,

even if it's not yours. What you praise is what you get. When you praise people,

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