Yo, hey everyone, it's Adrienne here. I hope you all having an awesome week. So last week,

I was invited to go and speak at ASOS and I went to deliver a talk there for their team at HQ,

and I spoke about developing a growth mindset. This is something that I am fascinated with.

So I thought I'd record a little message and share some of it with you as well.

So the term growth mindset was coined by a professor called Carol Dweck.

She is absolutely brilliant. Her work's amazing. So definitely check out her books.

And basically, she breaks it into two categories. So fixed mindset and growth mindset.

So if you are someone who has a fixed mindset,

then you believe that your character, intelligence, and creative ability are fixed.

You can't change what you've been given genetically.

That's just what you've got and that's it.

So for example, sometimes people will say, especially growing up,

you might have been told as a child that you were

sporty or that you were academic or that you were, you know, naturally musical. And like those

kind of terms, it's kind of can cause people to develop a fixed mindset because they believe those

things to be true about themselves and they believe those things to be limiting. So they decide that,

well, I'm just not sporty or I'm just not, you know,

good at languages or whatever, which actually, if you have a growth mindset, you believe that

you can continue to learn, continue to improve and increase your skills and your ability, and that

anything that you have currently, you can always work on and improve. And they don't see, somebody with a growth mindset doesn't see failure as final. They view failure as an opportunity

to improve. So I'm fascinated with this concept. And I think a lot about, you know, I challenge

myself to think, okay, how can I continue to develop a growth mindset? I believe already that I

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