How to Teach a Growth Mindset to Children (and to yourself)
Unconventional strategies to practice a growth mindset and teach it to children around you.
You want your kid to magically become some badass, challenge-eating machine?
Lectures don’t work, praise gets boring, and perfectionism is just another word for control freak. We dive into the reality behind both teaching and practicing a growth mindset.
Firstly it starts with you living a growth mindset so this episode is primarily a masterclass on building one yourself.
Self-efficacy is crucial for resilience and overcoming setbacks that hit us everyday. Yet there are so many nuances when you try to teach a growth mindset. The wrong praise makes things worse, Even being too strict about growth mindset practices can make things worse...
Ideas explored:
- Use everyday conversation to challenge the "rules" of life
- Turn failures into stories of possibility, not shame
- How to balance giving praise and rewards vs. letting them build grit and intrinsic motivation.
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