Foundations
A belief that you can improve your skills and increase your intelligence through effort, planning, and practice.
What is a growth mindset?
The brain is divided into this many lobes
Four: the frontal, parietal, temporal, and occipital.
There are how many common growth mindset roadblocks.
What is six?
This has been shown to lead to higher levels of anxiety, depression, eating disorders, poor relationships, and poor performance in life.
What is Negative self-talk?
"I'm either good at something or I'm not. I obviously don't have a talent for drawing so I shouldn't waste my time on trying again" is an example of what kind of mindset.
What is a fixed mindset?
The left side of your brain controls speech, your ability to write, comprehension or your ability to understand, and arithmetic. The right side of your brain controls what?
What is creativity, artistic, and musical skills?
Thinking of failure as a good thing, accepting feedback in the form of constructive criticism, viewing failure as an opportunity, and making a deal with yourself by committing to personal growth are strategies to overcome what.
What is Fear of Failure?
Casual assumption, labeling, mind reading, fortune telling, and overgeneralization are examples of this.
What is Cognitive Distortions?
"This is a good lesson to learn from. I can now practice what I didn't get right the first time around, so I can get better at drawing a realistic face" is an example of what kind of mindset?
What is a growth mindset?
These are driven by our interactions with our environment and have an enormous impact on our lives.
What are emotions?
Journaling, asking yourself "Why is that," reminding yourself of your past successes, and focusing on success are what you can do in response to what fear?
What is Fear of Success?
Give an example from your life of you using a growth mindset.
No wrong answer.
This is the brain's ability to take functions from one area of the brain and move it to a different area of the brain when there's been damage to a specific area.
What is functional plasticity?
Naming it or journaling about it, asking yourself "how is this helping?" celebrating small successes, and reminding yourself that failure is a gift are strategies to address what?
What is Perfectionism?
"Align your thoughts with your actions," "How you act impacts how you feel," and "Use how you feel to reinforce the way you think" are components of this.
What is the Three-legged Stool?
Give an example from your own life of you using a fixed mindset.
How would you reframe it to be in a growth mindset?
Why does knowing how the brain works matter?
You can't change something without having at least an idea of how it functions.
Breaking it down, creating a schedule, finding an accountability partner, and setting small goals throughout the day are strategies to help what barrier?
What is inertia?
This means giving yourself a break for not being perfect and not getting everything right the first time around.
What is Self-compassion?