Dakar mind set training (1) by kevin clark

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In this unit… One will learn • What is mind-‐set • How mind-‐set eﬀects us • How to detect your current mind-‐set • CharacterisMcs of posiMve & negaMve mind-‐set • ConnecMng mind-‐set and Value clariﬁcaMons • Valuable tools to help create a consistent “Growth” Mind-‐set ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, DAKAR FOUNDATION © 2016

MIND-SET •

Mind-Set can be defined as fixed mental attitude, that causes the eﬀect of one’s perceptions' to situations. •

This simply means, the way you think will aﬀect the outcome of what you want to achieve.

POP QUIZ (Answer to yourself)

• Which of these do you agree with? 1. Intelligence is ﬁxed at birth. 2. Some people are creaMve, others aren’t. 3. You can become a world-‐class expert through enough pracMce, whatever your starMng point. 4. You can change your personality.

If you agreed with the ﬁrst two statements, you’re coming from a FIXED mindset. If you agreed with the second two, you’ve got a GROWTH mindset. Just knowing that probably isn’t very useful. What does it mean for you?

FIXED Mindset •

Having a ﬁxed mindset means that you believe that your personality, skills and traits are pregy much set. They’re in your genes. You might think back to the way parents or teachers labeled you as a kid – perhaps “bright” or “lazy” or “clumsy” or “sporty”.

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If you’re stuck in the ﬁxed mindset, you want to keep proving yourself. “Success” means living up to what you believe yourself to be.

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If you believe you’re intelligent, you avoid taking on anything too hard – anything which might make you look stupid

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If you believe you’re creaMve, you sMck with the tried-‐and-‐trusted techniques which you already know – you don’t want to produce something that doesn’t work.

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If you believe you’ve got great business skills, you avoid taking risks – what if your company failed?

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The ﬁxed mindset can hold you back in other ways, too. It can lead you to focus on appearances over reality (so you cover up mistakes, for instance, rather than learning from them). It stops you taking on new challenges – perhaps playing a sport or learning a musical instrument – because you think you don’t have the innate talent in those. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, DAKAR FOUNDATION © 2016

Growth mindset •

Having a growth mindset means that you believe your personality, skills and traits can be changed. You believe that experience and pracMce count for a lot more than your geneMcs. You might think about all the things you’ve learned during your life – and all the Mmes you’ve started oﬀ as a total beginner only to become really good at something.

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You want to become more creaMve, so you try out new mediums and take courses to improve your skills. Maybe you come up with something that doesn’t quite work – but you know what to do diﬀerently next Mme.

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You want YOU WANT to be beger at business, so you take risks and try something new. Not everything you do succeeds and someMmes

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You want to become more intelligent, so you take on harder challenges which really stretch you. SomeMmes you fail – but you always learn something.

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The growth mindset isn’t about posiMve thinking or kidding yourself. It’s a recogniMon of how the brain really works – how new connecMons are being made all the Mme, new pathways forged, new memories stored. It means understanding that people aren’t born as great athletes or musicians or business gurus – they become that way through constantly challenging themselves to go a step further.

How do I change my mindset?

1. Forget everything that you have been taught and learned. Be prepared to learn anything and know that anything is possible. 2. Learn to understand your altude and emoMons and the reason you react the way you do. IdenMfy the ups and downs that may occur with your altude over the day, week, month, year… etc. 3. Have lower highs and higher lows. What this means is being overly excited about something generally will get very low, very quickly. 4. Understand that change is inevitable . You can control your altude. 5. Know that associaMon brings about assimilaMon. Altude is contagious.

How to develop a posiMve altude • Q: Can you control events that occur in life?

A: NO, you can control your response and your environment.

BAD ATTITUDE = BAD BELIEFS Example: If someone says something to you that isn't true to upset you, and you get upset… that is a bad altude that will result from bad beliefs… Got to have beAer beliefs

BELIEFS' DETERMINE EVERYTHING IN LIFE • Beliefs determine how you live your life. • Beliefs determine the results you get.

How it all begins…

LET’s create our dream gardens • TAKE AWAY ALL OF YOUR BELIEFS • UP ROOT THE SEEDS AND TREES THAT HAVE BEEN PLANTED

Fresh Pure Soil, ready for planMng

The spider monkey • • • • • • • • •

A man goes into the jungle to hunt a spider monkey. He places a jar ﬁlled with peanuts in the jungle and then walks away. The spider monkey comes and sees the peanuts. He reaches inside the jar and tries to take the peanuts. His hand was small enough to go into the jar, however his ﬁst is too large to come out. The spider monkey starts to scream. The hunter comes and eats the spider monkey! The monkey dies! Don’t be the SPIDER MONKEY that died for a peanut

How to get new beliefs 1. REMOVE OLD BELIEFS. 2. FIND SOMEONE WHO HAS WHAT YOU WANT AND ASK THEM HOW THEY GOT IT. 3. PERSONAL DEVELOPMENT 4. LEARNED KNOWLEDGE 5. ACTIVITY KNOWLEDGE 6. MODELING KNOWLEDGE 7. ONCE THE SEEDS ARE PLANTED, GUARD YOUR GARDEN. 8. AVOID NEGATIVE PEOPLE.

• Most don’t know how to change their lives. • When no REVOLUTIONARY change exist in ones beliefs then change will not occur. • Most think what they believe in is correct. • Name some things that you were taught and now know are not true. • What are some beliefs you have that had at the beginning of this class that are now gone? • List people that you would like to be like.

Learn to hear your ﬁxed mindset “voice.” • As you approach a challenge, that voice might say to you “Are you sure you can do it? Maybe you don’t have the talent.” “What if you fail—you’ll be a failure” “People will laugh at you for thinking you had talent.” “If you don’t try, you can protect yourself and keep your dignity.” •

As you hit a setback, the voice might say, “This would have been a snap if you really had talent.” “You see, I told you it was a risk. Now you’ve gone and shown the world how limited you are.” “ It’s not too late to back out, make excuses, and try to regain your dignity.”

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As you face criJcism, you might hear yourself say, “It’s not my fault. It was something or someone else’s fault.” You might feel yourself geKng angry at the person who is giving you feedback. “Who do they think they are? I’ll put them in their place.” The other person might be giving you speciﬁc, construcJve feedback, but you might be hearing them say “I’m really disappointed in you. I thought you were capable but now I see you’re not.”

Recognize that you have a choice. •

How you interpret challenges, setbacks, and criMcism is your choice. You can interpret them in a ﬁxed mindset as signs that your ﬁxed talents or abiliMes are lacking.

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Or you can interpret them in a growth mindset as signs that you need to ramp up your strategies and eﬀort, stretch yourself, and expand your abiliMes. It’s up to you.

So as you face challenges, setbacks, and criJcism, listen to the ﬁxed mindset voice and...

Talk back to it with a growth mindset voice. • As you approach a challenge: • THE FIXED MINDSET says “Are you sure you can do it? Maybe you don’t have the talent.” THE GROWTH MINDSET answers, “I’m not sure I can do it now, but I think I can learn to with Jme and eﬀort.” FIXED MINDSET: “What if you fail—you’ll be a failure”

GROWTH MINDSET: “Most successful people had failures along the way.” FIXED MINDSET: “If you don’t try, you can protect yourself and keep your dignity.” GROWTH MINDSET: “If I don’t try, I automaJcally fail. Where’s the dignity in that?” As you hit a setback: FIXED MINDSET: “ This would have been a snap if you really had talent.” GROWTH MINDSET: “ That is so wrong. Basketball wasn’t easy for Michael Jordan and science wasn’t easy for Thomas Edison. They had a passion and put in tons of eﬀort. As you face criJcism: FIXED MINDSET: “It’s not my fault. It was something or someone else’s fault.” GROWTH MINDSET: “If I don’t take responsibility, I can’t ﬁx it. Let me listen—however painful it is– and learn whatever I can.” Then...

Take the growth mindset acIon. • Over Mme, which voice you heed becomes pregy much your choice Whether you: • Take on the challenge wholeheartedly • Learn from your setbacks and try again • Hear the criMcism and act on it is now in your hands • PracMce hearing both voices, and pracMce acMng on the growth mindset. See how you can make it work for you.

PUMP YOUR WELL, TILL THE WATER COMES