A GROWTH Mindset vs. a FIXED Mindset With Mental Health
Developing a Growth Mindset for Mental Health
In this video, the speaker discusses how to tell if you have a growth or fixed mindset and how to develop a growth mindset in regards to mental health. The speaker explains that having a growth mindset can completely change how you feel about your mental health.
Growth vs Fixed Mindset
- A growth mindset is the belief that basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work.
- A fixed mindset is the belief that skills are due more to luck or chance than effort.
- With a fixed mindset, feedback is seen as a personal attack, and all-or-nothing thinking often occurs.
- With a fixed mindset, appearances are important, and people may avoid asking questions in class because it could make them look bad.
Growth Mindset for Mental Health
- Having a growth mindset is essential for mental health.
- Most people have never received any formal education about how to process emotions or improve their mental health.
- Your biology influences your mental health but only to a degree; there's still much you can do to influence your mental health.
- Problems should be seen as opportunities to learn new skills and grow.
- Instead of saying "I'm bad at math" or "I'm not talented," say "I haven't learned that skill yet."
- Every problem or difficulty can become an opportunity for learning with a growth mindset.
Developing a Growth Mindset
In this section, the speaker discusses how having a growth mindset can change the way we approach problems and emotions. Instead of feeling stuck, we can see challenges as opportunities to learn and grow.
Benefits of a Growth Mindset
- Changing our perspective on anxiety from being terrible to an opportunity to learn something new about ourselves.
- Seeing anxiety as a chance to gain more empathy for others who also experience anxiety.
- Having an open mind towards improving and progressing instead of stagnating and wallowing.
How to Develop a Growth Mindset
- Considering ourselves as works in progress rather than good or bad people.
- Focusing on progress rather than perfection.
- Trying different learning opportunities such as books, support groups, therapy, and coaching.
- Focusing more on our values rather than approval from others.
Applying a Growth Mindset to Kids
- Encouraging kids to have a growth mindset by identifying challenges and seeing what they can learn from them.
- Emphasizing that emotion processing is an essential skill for working through intense emotions.
Conclusion
- The speaker offers her 30-skill course "How to Process Your Emotions" which teaches essential skills for resolving depression, anxiety, and improving mental health.
- Accessing the entire course in one place ad-free with its workbook, exercises, downloads, extra videos, live Q&A's, additional short readings is possible by contributing to her Patreon or sponsors.