Mindset Matters

Mindsets are Beliefs
Beliefs about yourself and your
most basic qualities. Think about
intelligence, talents, personality.

• ARE THESE QUALITIES
SIMPLY FIXED TRAITS,
CARVED IN STONE?
• ARE THEY THINGS YOU CAN
CULTIVATE THROUGHOUT
YOUR LIFE?

Their Traits Are
Given
Have a certain
amount of brains and
talent and that
nothing can change
If they have a lot,
they’re all set, but if
 See their Qualities as
things that can be
developed through
their dedication and
effort
 They’re happy if
they’re brainy or
talented, but that’s

They spend their time documenting their
intelligence or talent instead of developing
them.
They also believe that talent alone
creates success—without effort.
This view creates a love of learning and a
resilience that is essential for great
accomplishment. Teaching a growth
mindset creates motivation and
productivity, and enhances relationships.

“People in this mindset worry about their
traits and how adequate they are. They
have something to prove to themselves
and others.”
“People in this mindset worry about their
traits and how adequate they are. They
have something to prove to themselves
and others.”

FIXED
MINDSET AT
WORK…..
• Will I succeed or fail?
• Will I look smart or dumb?
• Will I be accepted or rejected?
• Will I feel like a winner or a loser?
But doesn’t our society value intelligence, personality and
character? Isn’t it normal to want these traits?

GROWTH MINDSET
WORKING….
• Do people with a growth mindset
believe that anyone can be
anything, that anyone with proper
motivation or education can
become Einstein or Beethoven?
A person’s true talent is unknown
(And Unknowable)

What does this mean
for me?
Why waste time proving over and over how great
you are, when you could be getting better?
Why hide deficiencies instead of overcoming them?
Why look for friends or partners who will just shore
up your self-esteem instead of ones who will also
challenge you to grow?
And why seek out the tried and true, instead of
experiences that will stretch you?

FROM A FIXED
MINDSET….
I Will Blame this
Keynote for
Making me
Sleepy…

From a FIXED
MINDSET to
GROWTHin 4 Steps

Step 1: Learn how to
hear your FIXED
MINDSET Voice
As you approach a
challenge:
“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:
“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.”
As you face criticism:
“It’s not my fault. It was
something or someone
else’s fault.”
“Who do they think they
are? I’ll put them in their
place.”
You hear others say: “I’m
really disappointed in
you. I thought you were
capable but now I see
you’re not.”

Step 2: Recognize that
you have a CHOICE
HOW TO
INTERPRET
SETBACKS,
CHALLENGERS
AND CRITICISMIS YOUR CHOICE

Step 3: Talk back to your
FIXED MINDSET voice with
GROWTH
“Are you sure you can
do it? Maybe you don’t
have the talent.”
I’m not sure I can do
it now, but I think I
can learn to with
time and effort.”

GROWTH
“What if you fail—
you’ll be a Failure”
The Most Successful
people I know had
failures along the
way.”

GROWTH
“If you don’t try,
you can protect
yourself and keep
your dignity.”
“If I don’t try, I
automatically
fail. Where’s the
dignity in that?”

GROWTH
“This would have
been a snap if you
really had talent.”
The best way to
develop my talent is to
stretch myself out of
comfort zone and
practicing new things.”

GROWTH
“It’s not my fault. It
was something or
someone else’s fault.”
“If I Don’t take
Responsibility can’t fix it.
Let me listen—however
painful it is—and learn
whatever I can.”

Step 4: Take the
GROWTH MINDSET
action
Over time, which
voice you pay
attention to becomes
pretty much your
choice and it will
define who you are

There is no Secret Formula
Practice hearing both voices, and
practice acting on the growth
mindset and find a way that works
for you

When do you usually feel
smart?
When you’re doing
something flawlessly or
when you’re learning
something new?
#1

Do you ever feel
superior to other
people?
#2

Are you a person who
tends to avoid
responsibility for your
problems or failures by
making excuses or
blaming others?
#3

Did you ever label
yourself a failure or loser
after something negative
happened?
#4

Does your joy in AIESEC
come from playing your
hardest and doing your
best or from “winning”?
#5

Do you do your best when
things are going for you or
against you?
#6

Do you take losses really
hard?
WHY
What do losses mean
about you, your abilities, or
your image of yourself?
#7

Do you think leaders are
born not made, as in “a
born leader”? Why?
#8

What would you do if you
found out your (fixed-
mindset) leader thinks you
have a bad attitude, a
losing personality, no talent
for the job?
#9

Do you use feeling bad
as a reason for doing
nothing?
#1
0

Have you closed yourself
off to certain
relationships because
you expect perfection—
total alignment in every
way?
#1
1

Can you take criticism
from others?
#1
2

Do you expect the
people closer to you to
read your mind?
#1
3

Do you get stuck in a
rejection— do you feel
branded by it, do you
ruminate about it and
harbor feelings of
revenge?
#1
4

What assumptions have
you made about your
leader, team-mates or
people that you lead —
about roles,
responsibilities,
expectations— but never
discussed them with them?
#1
5

Based on this LEAD session:
what could you do now to
help the people around you
and the ones you impact
develop a growth mindset?

“Do not let your fire go out, spark by
irreplaceable spark in the hopeless swaps
of the not quite, the not yet, and the not at
all.
Do not let the hero in your soul perish in
lonely frustration for the life you deserved
and have never been able to reach.
The world you desire can be won.
It exists. It is real. It is possible.
It is yours!
- Ayn Rand

The Power
YET:We’re not good at...
We can’t do it...
We’ve tried but it didn’t work
...
We haven’t achieved our
goals ...

The Power
YET:I’m not good at it YET
I can’t do this YET
I’ve tried but it hasn’t worked
YET
I haven’t achieved my goals
YET

Mindset by Carol Dweck
Recommended Reading:
#YouCanLearnAnything
#ThePowerOfYet

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