app4mind Flashcards
What drives self-chosen change?
The 4M prinicples drive self-chosen change:
- mindset (thinking change)
- motion (doing change)
- mastery (feeling change)
- measurement (tracking change)
What is mindset?
- The thinking of change and the view we adopt about ourselves.
- Change is seen as a process of skill-building and learning.
- Growth mindset is the core belief.
- Fuse growth mindset with any mind methodology.
How can you change your mindset?
- Learn to hear your fixed mindset “voice.” What is your internal narrative telling you when you: approach a challenge? Hit a setback? Face criticism?
- Recognize that you have a choice for the growth mindset. Interpret challenges, setbacks, and criticism in a growth mindset, as signs that you need to ramp up your strategies and effort, stretch yourself, and expand your abilities.
- Talk back to it with a growth mindset voice. As you approach a challenge, are you determined to avoid failure at all costs or are you willing to embrace the opportunity to learn?
- Take the growth mindset action. Take on the challenge wholeheartedly, learn from your setbacks, and try again.
Sum up the core beliefs of mindset in 2 sentences
- The way I am now is not the way I always have to be.
- I can get substantially better at anything I try, through my own efforts and practice.
What is motion?
Doing of change in a feedback loop of trying, learning, reworking. Continue in the loop even if you reach your desired outcome. Change is evolution / trial-and-error.
Describe the motion process.
Classic trial and error:
- reject what doesn’t work.
- Be extremely open to what might work. Try things out. Experiment.
- Draw information from your inevitable mistakes and quickly correct them along the way.
- Find what does work. Once you do, keep doing it, tweaking and iterating to maintain an upward trajectory.
- Keep working: Awareness is key. Denial is the enemy. There may come a time when what works now doesn’t work anymore. When that happens, stop doing it.
- Keep looping through the process to keep evolving.
How can you rework change in the context of “motion”?
There are two basic reworks:
- Build on existing method
- Try a completely new one
Look at mastery (how you feel in the feedback loop) and measurement (tracking during looping) to determine to do either 1. or 2.
What is mastery?
- Feeling of change
- Micro-mastery, small wins
- Skill-building every time you feel your skill level growing
What is micro-mastery and how do you get it?
Micro-mastery is a feeling, not an accomplishment
- Do something that’s difficult for you, something you can achieve only if you stretch yourself.
- Finally do a small part of it, not perfectly or completely, but just enough to make you think, “I can do this” or “I’m on the right track.”
- Find enjoyment in exploring the limits of your abilities and trying to expand them – which is the same thing as enjoying the process.
What is measurement?
Tracking of change, using metrics to drive the change process:
- keeps you focussed and objective
- shows you what works and what doesn’t
How can you devise a metric?
- Ask why the change is done
- Determine how to measure the “real why”
- Collect fact, theroy, data, narrative
- Quantify the quantifiable
What kind of metrics are there?
- Trial period metrics: try something new for e.g. 7 days. The metric would be 7 days.
- Actionable metrics: gives you results you can work on and shows what to do next.
- Creative metrics: e.g. transferring items from one (full) container to another for each successfull attempt.
- Journaling metrics: Just write down whatever’s helpful and relevant, developing your own style as you go.
What are the beliefs of a growth mindset?
- Talents, aptitudes, interests, temperaments, and intelligence can be changed and grown through our own efforts.
- We evolve throughout our lives.
What are the beliefs of a fixed mindset?
- Innate qualities (talents, aptitude, interestes, …) make us who we are
- They can’t be changed very much.
What are the consequences of having a fixed mindset?
Having a fixed mindset leads to…
- … being concerned with how one will be judged.
- … a desire to look smart.
- … avoiding challenges.
- … giving up easily at obstacles.
- … seeing effort as fruitless.
- … ignoring criticism and valuable feedback.
- … perceiving success of others is threatening.
- .. confirming a deterministic view of the world.
What are the consequences of having a growth mindset?
Having a growth mindset leads to…
- … being concerned with improving.
- … a desire to learn.
- … embracing challenges.
- … persisting in the face of setbacks.
- … seeing effort as the path to mastery.
- … learning from criticism.
- … finding lessons and inspirations in the successes of others.
- … a greater sense of free will.
