Well of course you don’t, have you ever done anything like this before?
What about when you learned to ride a bike or swim?
Did you know how to right off the rip? Or did it take some time? Lots of falling, mistakes, emotions, attempts, and eventually. You pulled it off.
You rode 2 blocks without falling, you swam to the ledge without anyone there to save you…
That’s beauty and we intuitively understand that when we’re growing up, we’re just kids without an understanding of much (but interpreting everything.)
As we get older though, sometimes “I don’t know how” turns into an excuse.
We don’t know anything about cars so we don’t even attempt to find the problem or figure it out “I don’t know”
Or we don’t know how to workout or eat healthy “This is all I know”
That’s showing our fixed mindset – a belief that we cannot grow or learn – how silly does that sound?
We can learn to fix the car, or find what’s wrong with it and determine if we need a professional to replace it or if is it just changing the battery?
Just like we can learn to work out, eat healthy, and any other thing we want to learn. Anything in the world.
That’s a growth mindset. A belief that we can grow and learn new things, no matter where we are or how old we are, or what we’ve gone through.
And we can have fixed mindsets in some areas, and growth mindsets in others…
Throw the fixed mindset out the window – the “I don’t know how” “I don’t know anything about X” and embrace the growth mindset…
It’s uncomfortable starting at the beginning, not knowing anything – it exposes us.
Embrace this, learning and growing
Joe DiAndrea 