[[Notes]]
- Topics: [[Perspective]], [[Persistence]]
- People: [[Carol Dweck]]
- Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_X0mgOOSpLU
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## Summary
- You can't do this... yet. But you will, someday.
- [[Do not waste your life chasing validation from the judgments of now. Work towards your dreams by developing yourself through the power of yet.]]
- Not do not run from difficulty. Walk towards it, knowing what that one day it will get easier. By then, you can run.
- Do not accept your limitations. Develop your abilities to overcome them.
- [[Failure is a feeling you allow yourself to feel]]. [[Failure is an event, not an identity]].
- [[Lead with "yet" instead of "now" as you navigate the present towards the future]].
- [[Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one]].
## Notes
### Yet
- [[The power of yet]].
- [[If you get a failing grade, you think 'I'm nothing. I'm nowhere.'... If you get a grade 'not yet', you understand that you're on a learning curve. It gives you a path to the future.]]
- "Not yet" and "no" are similar, except to one is more easily inspires opportunity than the other.
- Transform the meaning of effort and difficulty.
- [[Do not waste your life chasing validation from the judgments of now. Work towards your dreams by developing yourself through the power of yet.]]
### Mindsets
- [[Growth mindset]] - Understanding that your abilities can be developed.
- [[Fixed mindset]] - They can often lead to experiencing moments of judgment and feelings of failure.
- Having a fixed mindset about your abilities means you will always work around your limitations rather than developing your abilities (therefore yourself) to overcome your limitations.
- Equality can happen within environments that encourage a growth mindset.
### Failure
- [[Failure is a feeling you allow yourself to feel]]. [[Failure is an event, not an identity]].
- [[Instead of luxuriating in the power of "yet", they were gripped in the tyranny of "now"]].
- Do not run from difficulty, run towards it; knowing that it will get easier after every single step.
- Do not run from error engage with it. Process the error. Learn from it. Correct it.
- [[Lead with "yet" instead of "now" as you navigate the present towards the future]].
### Encouragement
- "Employers are coming to me and saying, 'We've raised a generation of young workers who can't get through the day without an award'."
- [[Praise process. Praise progress. Praise wisely.]]
- "This 'process praise' raises kids who are hardy and resilient."
- Reward (praise) effort, strategy and progress.
- Cultivate engagement and strategic thinking by acknowledging efforts of self development and progress.
### Challenges
- Practice engaging with challenges to develop the perseverance to endure ever greater challenges.
- [[Do not pray for an easy life. Pray for the strength to endure a difficult one]].
- "Yet or not yet provides a path into the future that creates greater persistence".
- Push yourself out of your comfort zone. [[Adapting to discomfort develops ability]].
- [[Discipline is doing something you hate like you love it]].
- [[Believe to achieve]].
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