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The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

You Have a Choice | Mindset Monday

The Tom Ferry Podcast Experience

Tom Ferry

Education, Business, Self-improvement

4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 April 2020

⏱️ 3 minutes

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Summary

Are you choosing to operate from a growth mindset? In today’s episode of Mindset Monday, I talk about the importance of going after a growth mindset and not falling into the fixed mindset. We’re living in crazy times, but every morning you have a choice to either retreat or go after the light at the end of the tunnel.  We’re all going through the same experience…how are you innovating to lead you to those brighter days?

Transcript

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0:00.0

So you either see a light at the end of the tunnel or you think it's a train that's about to take you out.

0:07.0

It's all perspective, it's all mindset, it's all what you believe.

0:11.0

The bottom line is this, what we know is, you know, as we go through

0:15.1

this experience together, you, me, and people all around the world, you're really

0:19.2

only in one of two mindsets, right? It goes back to the extraordinary work of Dr. Carol Dweck.

0:24.8

You're either in the growth mindset

0:26.2

or you're in the fixed mindset.

0:27.5

The growth mindset or the fixed mindset.

0:29.8

The growth mindset is very clear,

0:32.0

like there's people that are innovating like

0:34.1

mad right now that are saying it's Monday I'm gonna get after it what can I do

0:38.9

today who is my customer what are their challenges how can I demonstrate solutions for them and help them do it in a safe and beautiful way and they're moving forward

0:48.3

Powerfully because it's Monday. It's a new week and we're starving for innovation. We're starving for the flight to quality

0:56.2

The people that have figured out how they're going to do it that growth mindset that says

1:00.5

I'm gonna try it anyway. I don't care if I screw up because done is better than perfect right and

1:06.7

Perfect is just an impossible standard that so many people place on themselves that really is just an excuse for not taking action, for not getting the project done,

1:14.6

for not shooting the video because, oh my God, what if an airplane goes over my head while I'm

1:18.3

filming, right? The whole game is to just be in action, to be in that growth mindset, and that's where I want you to be,

1:26.0

because that fixed mindset, that place where fear and anxiety override all of your best intentions, all of your goals and dreams everything gets

1:34.4

squashed because you're sucked into headlines and the news and the media and and

1:38.4

the woe is me and there's no doubt there's things that are happening around the world that are tragic and even

1:44.4

catastrophic and yet you got a choice you just got to decide right you got to decide like I

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