Growth vs Fixed Mindset
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Okay, Welcome to another anxiety Wide podcast episode. I am your host, Cory. And this episode is another wad work out of your day. Today we're gonna talk about is growth mindset versus fixed mindset. And I'll explain what that is a little bit more in detail here as we move forward. There was a point in my life where I believed I was capable of pretty much anything specifically in sport. Academics is pretty straightforward with me. I could memorise things and pass. I struggled with showing my work and doing the necessary details that school asked of me. But learning was never the issue. It was more of how they presented information and how I was supposed to fit the mold. You know, it is Ah, there's something in there about, you know, different cuts of animals and trying to teach them on. You know, fish can swim other kinds of animals can't. And I was another kind of animal in something so many ways. But for me, there was a time where I believed anything was possible. I was fearless, and that's how I was described, you know, in the papers when we were on TV playing sports. They would consider me fearless, which as ironic as it is now, it's Ah, it's how I felt I was 100% confident in my ability. I was 100% confident, confident that when presented with a task or adversity, I could overcome that and that fell to the wayside. And it began when my body started to not work the way that I was used to. We now know that it was neurological and it was, you know, the next thing that started to change things. But my new normal became something where it was waves crashing in. It was lack of confidence. It was a shame it was. I picked up boxing gloves and beat myself up because I could not do that anymore. And so I believe that that was my new normal. I believed that I was incapable of overcoming anything and it became fixed. It became a static state of my mind set. It became the part of me that was riel, but altogether not true. What changed for me is I decided to take some action towards changing things. And so if you look at a growth mindset and this is vital to anyone with anxiety is we believe that there state is going to last forever. We believe that we're never gonna get rid of anxiety. We're never gonna be able to manage it. We're never gonna be quote unquote normal to other people. And that's a fixed mindset. We think these things over and over so much that because they become believe and our mindset, our beliefs, her hand in hand did the same thing. A fixed mindset. You avoid challenges you nor ignore criticism. Your intelligence and talent is fixed. You put out less effort, you give up easily. You shame yourself. Tell yourself you're a failure. You're threatened by the success of other people than people that do not have anxiety like you have it. Even though there are hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of people out there that are exactly like you. Same kind of anxiety, same problem, same issues, same struggle. You tell yourself that you're always gonna fail, never gonna prove. And then why should I even try? I've been there. I know what that's like. It's It's hopeless. It's an extremely hopeless feeling. No, but it's fixed. It's fixed because you've told yourself over and over and over. I can't. There's no way I'm not able to. I'm I'm sick. I'm injured. I'm a victim. You may be a victim of something very terrible, but there are no victims with our mind. We always have the opportunity to change our perspective. Yes, something terrible may have happened to you, but you don't have to relive it over and over every day. You don't. You don't have to let it continue to affect you. You can't. You don't have to let the person that hurt you with the event that hurt you. The situation that hurt you have power over you. You will always have one superpower. And that is the power over your mind over your thoughts. You can change them at any point. And so a growth mindset looks like I'm going to embrace challenges. What you're going through with anxiety is a big challenge. But you don't have to tackle the whole gambit of what anxiety is in one day or one situation. Just take on the challenge of the day that you can handle and focus on that. You're gonna learn from feedback and criticism versus ignore criticism. Now it's hard to do when people try to help that aren't very constructive, like people be like, Well, if you just can't worry or just why don't you just not worry? Obviously, that's not very constructive. But if someone actually gives you a piece of advice, hear them out. You know, if it comes from a ****** place of love, if it's positive and it may help here amount, you never know when you have a growth mindset. And this is when I struggled with intelligence and your talent can to be developed again. I had both of those things, and I convinced myself, and I put myself in a fixed mindset that they were no longer there. I just had to uncover them. I buried them with my own thoughts and to dig deeper inside my brain to let them come to the forefront once again and be the bigger part of my life. They're still there who you were before you had. Anxiety is still there. It's buried under a mountain of negativity negativity that's buried under a mountain of fearful thoughts, and it's buried under a mountain of fixed mindset. But once you change to a growth mindset, you're gonna have more time. We're gonna create more time to give mawr effort into those things that you want to pursue rather than less effort. When you're in a fixed mindset because you're not telling yourself you can't. More effort comes when you start telling yourself I can and it may not be grand. Big scale things focus on the little things. Those make the biggest difference. You do not get frustrated. You do not get at the point which you want to quit. You keep trying and never give up. I've tried thousands of things to remedy my anxiety, but I didn't give up. And that's where I met today. And that's why I'm at where I'm at today as well. And you're gonna persist in the face of setbacks. You're gonna keep going. You're gonna let that one thing that one bad day, that one bad situation ruin your day. Your week, your year. Let it go. Let it float away like a balloon and try again rather than being jealous of someone that does not have anxiety. You're inspired by them. You want to be like them. You want the same thing they have. So you're gonna ask them questions, how they got there, You're gonna do some of the things they did, which is how I started my journey. I started by doing some of the same things that the people I was around we're doing. I started a morning ritual. I started reading. I started gaining knowledge. I started trying to push through the discomfort of my crippling fear, and it was just a pinprick. And little by little, the water that I was carrying, that weight I was carrying started to leak out, and the more holes I poked in it the later it got on, the faster ice kept moving on my journey. Little by little little pinpricks, those air little tasks you do every day to help remedy your own anxiety, and you learn from failure. Start taking notes on what's not working so you can cross those off when you try them again. You gotta learn, adapt, grow from what's not working. You have to know that this is going to take time and hard work. It's not. It doesn't not accomplished overnight, but you can do it and you have to want to keep working. A growth mindset makes managing your anxiety possible. A fixed mindset is going to stop your progress, and it's also gonna continue to possibly make things worse. It is entirely possible to change your mindset in a day. It's not entirely possible that completely change your anxiety in a day. But your mindset, that's where everything originates. You can do this, I promise. You keep coming back. We're gonna figure this out. Have a peaceful morning, afternoon or evening.