Growth Mindset Psychology: The Science of Self-Improvement
Embrace Adversity & Question Negativity: Growth Mindset Essentials
25 Aug 2023
We all experience disasters in our lives where we must keep control, embrace challenges, and choose happiness over victimhood. In this episode of the Growth Mindset, we are guided by the brilliant Gina Gardiner. Despite a crippling ski accident when she was young, she became an award-winning headteacher and life coach. She helped inspire thousands of young minds and actively taught the Growth Mindset for many decades. She shares her most inspiring lessons and stories of resilience and determination and focuses on teaching how to live a happy and fulfilling life, no matter what challenges we face. We are the authors of our own life stories, and we can choose to be happy, no matter what. Gina also teaches us the importance of asking for help, and of surrounding ourselves with positive people. - - - On the growth mindset podcast with Sam Webster Harris, we explore the psychology of happiness, satisfaction, purpose, and growth through the lens of self-improvement. Success and happiness is a state of mind unique to ourselves and is our responsibility to create. Through a process of honest self-reflection of what is holding us back and what is driving us forward, we can lose the ego and build awareness of how to be the best we can be. - - - Connect with Sam Webster Harris π§ββοΈ Newsletter: https://explosivethinking.substack.com/ π¦ Twitter: https://twitter.com/samjamharris πΈ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/samjam.zen/ - - - Stay up to date: π€π€π€ π‘ Podsite: https://www.growthmindsetpodcast.com/ Epic books on growth πππ πββοΈ Atomic Habits: https://amzn.to/3O1F5MC π§ Mindset, psychology of success: https://amzn.to/42nYDzj π° Psychology of Money: https://amzn.to/3nNnXzs - - - Show: Growth Mindset, psychology of self-improvement Episode: Embracing Setbacks and Challenges Positively: Growth Mindset Essentials. How we determine our happiness and success regardless of the disasters in our life. Chapters: 00:00 Recognising happiness as a choice 01:59 Cultivating Self-Excellence and Self-Connection 02:38 Lessons from Near-Death Experiences 04:01 Dealing with paralysis 05:56 Liberating Life from Judgment 09:02Β Neuro Linguistic Programming 11:06 Your Only Limit Is You 13:49 The Power of Belief 14:35 Resilience Lessons from James Dyson 15:14 A Shared Journey 18:27 4 Psychological Motivators 21:39 Embrace Authenticity 23:12 Beginning Self Transformation 27:15 The Choice of Happiness 29:32 Seizing Momentum in the Morning 30:35 Battling Negativity 34:48 The Catalyst for Gina Gardiner's School Award 34:54 Building a Springboard to Success 39:46 Teaching Growth Mindset to Kids 42:50 Gina's Earliest Memory 43:19 The Kindness of Small Acts 45:35 How to Expand Your Comfort ZoneΒ 47:19 Be the Author of Your Own Story Topics: Growth Mindset for Kids, Author of Your Own Story, Building Momentum, Dealing with Disabilities, Resilience and Mental Toughness, Staying Calm in Life-Threatening Situations, Life in a Wheelchair, Spreading Positivity and Happiness, Teaching and Running a School, Life of HeadTeachers, Neuro-Linguistic Programming, Award Winning Education, Acts of Kindness Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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