PTP:086. Fix Your Mind to A Growth Mindset

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pathway to promise podcast with Dr. Brad Miller. Episode Number 86. Fix your mind to grow your mind.

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Brad Miller 0:26
You are on the pathway to promise with Dr. Brad Miller. Brad believes every person has a god given promised life of peace, prosperity and purpose and that you must have a plan and a guide to get there. The pathway to promise podcast Not only is your guide through the wilderness of depression and disappointment that stand between you and your promise life, but also brings you insights and direction from inspiring successful thought leaders who have transformed their lives. Welcome to the pathway to promise now here’s Brad Hello, good people. And welcome to the pathway to promise podcast with Dr. Brad Miller. What an awesome opportunity it is for us to have a conversation together about things that matter. What we’re about here at the pathway to promise is about helping you overcome adversity in your life, to achieve your promise to life of peace, prosperity, and purpose, and learn the power of making a promise keeping a promise and celebrating the power of promise in your life. We do that by sharing some good teaching today we’re talking about but growing your mind, about your mindset about the history of fixed mindset, and a growth mindset. We do want you to know that we’ve got all kinds of opportunities at our website, pathway promise.com back episodes of the podcast with lots of great teaching from lots of great leaders who have overcome some adversity in their life to achieve success and we have a free gift for you there. So please go check that out. Let’s talk about your mind. What’s the difference between a fixed mindset and a growth mindset? Probably in one way or another, you have either experienced that yourself or you are one of these people who has a fixed mindset or a growth minded mindset. We almost all do. Perhaps you had a teacher or a boss or a parent or a sibling who seemed like they were perfect or who demanded perfection from you. That is a fixed mindset. That is there is a level of achievement. There’s a level of perfection that is expected that is expected and you go for it. Go for that achievement. Maybe it’s a sales goal in your company, maybe it’s a as an athletic goal that you have by a coach or by a parent or maybe it’s an academic achievement, for instance, trying to get all A’s or get a 4.0 when your report card is a fixed minded mindset. The problem with a fixed mindset is that it’s based on basically a understanding of the leverage of the negative over you leverage what you are not achieving, to what you can achieve, because it’s very, very hard to achieve perfection. So what happens to that student who is used to getting all A’s and all of a sudden in their sophomore year of college, they get a B, oh my god. For some people, that is a disaster. If they have a mindset, that’s Fixed that that is what their expectation is that they had that that be is simply unacceptable. It doesn’t lead to healthy living usually. However, if we have a growth mindset, a growth mindset has different parameters of how it works in our life is about understanding the circumstances we’re in, and then seeing how we frame that in our life. One of the things that I like to do is I’m a big basketball fan. And I like to study and follow the follow high school and college and pro basketball. And I like to study the teams and the coaches that have great success. And I happen to be from Indiana and one of the great successful coaches that came out of Indiana was a guy named john wooden, who went to college on the college level at UCLA in the 60s in the 70s. Won 10 national championships.

And he did so based on what he called his pyramid of success and then another episode of the podcast. We’ll get into that in more detail. But I want to talk to you today a little more about his mindset about coach Wooden’s mindset. But how he dealt with the circumstances that he was in and still was able to persevere and get through things in his life to have the most successful college basketball team dynasty of any era. A lot of folks that follow basketball know about his championships but they don’t really know that the first 16 years he was at UCLA, that they were had a terrible facilities. They didn’t have the best record in the world. Their place that that they played, yeah, and it was an old barn fat they called it the gym that they played in was known as the BO bar and BO for body odor. It was a terrible place. The atmosphere was sweaty and smelly and not very nice at all. And there was not a very good wasn’t very good atmosphere. And for for several years that coach you wouldn’t was at UCLA. They had to travel around and often had to borrow High School gems and things like that in order to even to practice. And then he’d the first group group of players that he had weren’t that great either. They had to recruit their different sets of players and help build up the players that he had. What did he do? that went on for 14 or 15 years before he had any real success. He said about going to work with a mindset of growth, growing himself and growing his players and He kept working on progress, making progress going on getting better getting better every day. Yeah, he gave them you know, training and, and coaching and he was not you know, he was tough on his players. He was a firm disciplinarian. But what he was about all the time was these two main elements that he talked to his players that I want you to get here today is with think about a fixed mindset and a growth mindset. And that was two elements that he had and what wouldn’t talk to his players and that is two things get these full preparation and full effort. I’ll say that again, full preparation and full effort. So he wasn’t looking for mistake free games when they played her mistake free practices. He was looking for being prepared and giving all giving your all giving your effort. He did not focus on the winning or the losing and his players will tell you about that. He focused on getting better all the time. And so he worked with some of the greatest players of all time. You know, Kareem Abdul Jabbar and all kinds of other great players that he worked with. But he was able to work with them and to help them to grow individually. he respected them individually. And then they came together as a team to grow. And this bias towards growth led to excellence. And that’s what I want to encourage you to be about friends has to have a bias towards growth, get your mindset, not on achieving perfection because that is just a standard that is not really realistic. Set yourself on a standard Dad sees things in a different way. See your life in terms of preparation and effort and look to make progress and persevere. You can do this. It’s very possible, it’s very doable. So if you want to win in the game of life, whether it’s your business or in your family or your marriage or your relationships, or in athletics or music or in your performance or your workplace, let’s think about how you can grow being a constant state of growth. In two things come into play here, preparation, and effort. If you do those things you’re going to grow. Here’s the key for what we like to teach here at the pathway to promise.

The key to this is to promise yourself, make it a part of your mindset. Not to be that perfect person, but to be the person who can be counted upon to be fully prepared. And to give full effort, make that promise to yourself and if you need to make that promise to the people you’re accountable to at your workplace or your spouse or your children or, or to your, to your health partner, your workout partner, make that promise. Full preparation full effort, then keep your promise. That’s the thing. That’s what he wouldn’t did in coaching. He he held the people up to the standard of making a promise and keeping their promise and excellence ensued. So be encouraged today, during the pathway to promise that you too can achieve great things. When you have a growth mindset, full preparation and full effort. We can be helpful to you we want to be head over to our website, pathway promise.com. There you can find lots of back episodes, other podcasts which could be helpful to you and some blog posts We have a free downloadable gift all for you. Because our mission here at the pathway to promise podcast is to help you overcome adversity in your life to achieve your promise, life of peace, prosperity, and purpose. So until next time, my friend, this is Dr. Brad Miller encouraging you to keep your promises because there’s power in our promise kept. Thanks so much for taking the pathway to promise with Dr. Brad Miller as a subscriber, you’ll be a vital part of the pathway to promise community visit us on the web at pathway promise.com. Until next time, remember to stay on your pathway to promise

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