{"id":22885,"date":"2020-12-26T09:35:29","date_gmt":"2020-12-26T13:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/?p=22885"},"modified":"2021-01-08T21:53:07","modified_gmt":"2021-01-09T01:53:07","slug":"the-growth-mindset","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/the-growth-mindset\/","title":{"rendered":"The Growth Mindset: How to Develop Your Grit"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>What is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/growth-mindset-characteristics\/\">growth mindset<\/a>? How can having a growth mindset help you develop grit?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The growth mindset is the idea that intelligence can be trained, and that determination can help you <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/improve-your-skills\/\">improve your skills<\/a>. In order <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/characteristics-of-grit\/\">to have grit<\/a>, you must also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/growth-mindset-development\/\">have a growth mindset<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more about the growth mindset and how it relates to grit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>The Growth Mindset<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>A similar concept is the <strong>growth mindset<\/strong>, that intelligence can be trained and is not innate.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To consider whether you have a growth mindset, see how much you agree with these statements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Your intelligence is something very basic about you that you can\u2019t change very much.&nbsp;<\/li><li>You can learn new things, but you can\u2019t really change how intelligent you are.&nbsp;<\/li><li>No matter how much intelligence you have, you can always change it quite a bit.&nbsp;<\/li><li>You can always substantially change how intelligent you are.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>If you disagreed with the first two and agreed with the last two, then you have more of a growth mindset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The growth mindset increases grit and perseverance \u2013 if you hit an obstacle, you don\u2019t attribute it to permanent personal traits. <strong>You instead believe you have the capacity to improve<\/strong>, no matter what you do. In contrast, with a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/fixed-mindset-examples\/\">fixed mindset<\/a>, you think that you failed at something because you simply don\u2019t have it in you and you\u2019ll never have it \u2013 so why keep trying?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A surprising finding: adolescents change their IQs from adolescence to adulthood. This may be a special event in puberty, but suggests that our brains are plastic and can be rewired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Why is a Growth Mindset Helpful?<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>What evidence shows the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/benefits-of-optimism\/\">benefits of optimism<\/a> and growth mindset?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Optimists are less likely to suffer from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/low-mood-and-anxiety\/\">depression and anxiety<\/a>, tend to earn higher grades, stay healthier, are twice as likely to stay in their jobs, and sell 25% more than pessimists. In a study of Teach for America teachers, optimistic teachers were grittier and happier, and they led to higher achievements for their students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Growth mindset students are grittier, earn higher grades, and are more likely to persist through college. Employees in growth-mindset cultures (where employees were developed, rather than focusing on the top performers) were 47% more likely to say colleagues are trustworthy, 49% more likely to say their company fosters innovation, and 65% to say their company supports risk taking.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Long-Term Effects of Mindset<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Both optimism\/pessimism and growth\/fixed mindset can be self-reinforcing in vicious cycles or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/virtuous-and-vicious-cycles\/\">virtuous cycles<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Negatively, if you believe your skills have hit their permanent limits, and you believe life\u2019s problems are caused by those limits, <strong>you are less likely to overcome roadblocks<\/strong> \u2013 after all, it\u2019s logical to give up if there\u2019s no way out. <strong>Your recurrent failures then perpetuate your negative feelings<\/strong>, which further reduce your likelihood of success and cause you to avoid challenges that would have led to growth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In contrast, if you believe your skills can perpetually grow, and that misfortune is temporary and can be fixed, you keep trying to solve problems. <strong>When you break through and improve, you further reinforce your positive beliefs, which makes you try even harder next time.<\/strong> Importantly, you actively seek challenges beyond your ability that lead to growth (remember <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/deliberate-practice-definition\/\">deliberate practice<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suggestive evidence of long-term effects comes from the original Seligman\/Maier shocking experiments. They performed the same experiment on adolescent rats, and assessed them five weeks later as adults. The rats without control over shocks grew up timid and less adventurous. In contrast, the rats with control seemed resilient to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/seligman-learned-helplessness\/\">learned helplessness<\/a>.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Maier argues that <strong>neural rewiring is strengthened by <\/strong><strong><em>actual<\/em><\/strong><strong> success<\/strong>. Just telling someone they can overcome roadblocks isn\u2019t enough \u2013 you have to pair the low-level feeling of progress with high-level mindset changes to strengthen the connection between cause and effect.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The duration of learned helplessness is troubling for kids in poverty, who receive a lot of helplessness experiences and not enough mastery experiences. For kids at the more impressionable age, the wiring between failure and mindset can be strengthened repeatedly. Similarly, kids who coast through life without having to overcome adversity can have low grit that makes them crumble under pressure. Both situations can be reinforced by fixed mindset attitudes from parents or teachers \u2013 &#8220;you\u2019re just no good at this, and you\u2019ll never amount to anything.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How to Increase Optimism<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>How do you increase your optimism and growth mindset?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>First, <strong>update your beliefs about intelligence and talent<\/strong>. Believe that your brain is plastic, and you have the ability to grow. Believing in the growth mindset if important to actually developing it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Next, practice optimistic self-talk. (The book says to see a therapist and doesn\u2019t give many examples, but optimistic self-talk may sound something like &#8220;great job! You tried hard, which gave you a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/success-is-luck\/\">chance of success<\/a>.&#8221; &#8220;That didn\u2019t work. How did you approach it, and how can you improve next time?&#8221; &#8220;Don\u2019t feel bad if you can\u2019t do it <em>yet<\/em>. You\u2019ll get there.&#8221;)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A charter school network <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/knowledge-is-power-program\/\">KIPP<\/a> has the following Say\/Don\u2019t Say statements:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-table\"><table><tbody><tr><td><strong>Fixed Mindset<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Growth Mindset and Grit<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&#8220;You\u2019re a natural!&#8221;<\/td><td>&#8220;You\u2019re a learner!&#8221;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&#8220;Well, at least you tried.&#8221;<\/td><td>&#8220;That didn\u2019t work. Let\u2019s talk about how you approached it and what might work better.&#8221;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&#8220;Great job! You\u2019re so talented.&#8221;<\/td><td>&#8220;Great job! What\u2019s one thing that could have been even better?&#8221;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&#8220;This is hard. Don\u2019t feel bad if you can\u2019t do it.&#8221;<\/td><td>&#8220;This is hard. Don\u2019t feel bad if you can\u2019t do it <em>yet<\/em>.&#8221;<\/td><\/tr><tr><td>&#8220;Maybe this just isn\u2019t your strength. Don\u2019t worry \u2013 you have other things to contribute.&#8221;<\/td><td>&#8220;I have high standards. I\u2019m holding you to them because I know we can reach them together.&#8221;<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Ask for help. Mentors with growth mindsets can coach you through introspection and set goals to push you on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.shortform.com\/blog\/virtuous-cycle-john-malone\/\">the virtuous cycle<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When you default to fixed mindset, recognize it, and put a label to that persona. 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