By Katy Koontz — 2015
Michael Bernard Beckwith talks with Unity Magazine editor Katy Koontz about connectedness, thinking outside the box, and making the impossible possible.
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According to the research of Stanford's Dr. Carol Dweck, both positive and negative labels, whether "gifted" or "seriously learning disabled," encourage a "fixed mindset," or the belief that nothing children do or think will change their intelligence.
An entire family can benefit from adopting a growth mindset, and it can help everyone shift their thinking about the challenges one of them faces every day.
The story of disability inclusion is incomplete. It is now time for C-level executives and management to take more of an active role and cultivate a new narrative to both augment and redefine disability in the larger context of business strategy.
Consider this – for children with ADHD, anxiety, learning differences, autism spectrum diagnoses, and other behavioral disorders, already innate negative thinking patterns have been reinforced by years and years of negative messages.
In my latest book Redesign Your Mind I explain how you can not only change what you think but how you think.
The exact challenges you face are the ones that you need to tackle.
To stay on top, you must reframe your company’s struggle and articulate your vision.
One trait of highly successful people is having a positive outlook on life, always moving forward, always learning – especially when it’s hard. We’re not typically grateful for the “worst” things in our lives. If we want to have a growth mindset, we should be.
Sometimes, when things don’t go according to plan, we lose faith, not only in ourselves, but also in any potential outcome in our lives. Failure will do that to you.
Students constantly face obstacles and transitions—and their mindset influences how they respond to them.
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