Hey everybody, I hope you
are doing fantastic today.
My name is Marcas, this is Discover Ignite
and today I have another
book review for you guys.
Now, this particular book is on mindset,
yes it is one of the things
that I find tremendous value in
that can lead you to
success in life, is mindset.
It's all in your mind
and this book breaks it down perfectly.
Now, this book, mindset, is by Carol Dweck
and it is a phenomenal
book that goes into,
you know, the two
different types of mindset.
There's a fixed mindset and
there's a growth mindset
and what I love about this
book is it goes through,
you know, the different
main categories in life,
right, it goes into,
you know, relationships,
it goes into careers, and it
goes into child development.
So with you, I'm sure, have
touched on two of the three
at most out of those and it
goes into many other things,
but it takes the different scenarios,
especially like in relationships, right,
it goes about into how
somebody with a fixed mindset
would approach a relationship issue
and what they would be saying and thinking
during that particular situation
and then it also takes the other side
of the growth mindset
and actually gets into
what they would be saying and thinking,
and it's just, it's a very
insightful, very valuable book
that can teach you extraordinary amount
on how to just approach
anything in life in general
and to really like keep you in check like
am I in that fixed mindset?
Is this something that I
need to be more open about
and be more growth, that
yes is this because,
you know, it seems this way, that I'm
just gonna let that be the end all be all
or I'm gonna actually try to
change it and make it better
and that's what this book just shows you.
It has you research in there about,
especially like child development,
about how if you tell
kids specific things,
you know, they're gonna
latch on to the word,
specific words that you're saying
and then they're gonna actually, you know,
that's gonna affect them
the rest of their life
and how you approach the whole subject
can make them actually think that,
they'll just be in a fixed
mindset their whole life
and assume that they're not good
because I was told that, you know,
when I was younger that I was just good
and I just wasn't gonna get any better
and that's, again, this is
why this book is so valuable
and it is, it's got
tremendous research in it.
It's got tremendous knowledge
and one of the best parts
of the book, I actually
found intriguing was that
it goes into the story of John McEnroe
and how he, you know,
initially loved tennis, right,
but because of his dad's
persistence in pushing him
and pushing him, he
ended up hating the sport
and he actually got to the point, yes
he did win championships,
but he got to the point
where he thought, his mind was so fixed
that he didn't think any more practice
would get him any better, right,
so that's what ultimately
led to his demise,
and also touches on, you
know, Michael Jordan as well,
about how he came out of
retirement and then he just,
you know, he thought it was natural talent
but when in fact it wasn't
because that year he came back
he wasn't nearly as good as he was
and then he realized that and realized
that he had to step up his game
and he had to work like he used to
to be able to get that talent back
and that is one of the biggest things
is you have to understand that success
is all about a mindset, right,
and if you can push yourself,
if you can drive yourself
knowing that you can fix it,
this is exactly how you're
gonna get through life
and I've just, you know,
after reading this book
I really started going through
a lot of different times
in my life and was like,
well, how did I approach
this specific time in my life
and I find out there was a lot of times
when I was very fixed and
I think it all came back to
is just, is being a kid and, you know,
I used to be very outgoing
and I used to also be,
you know, heavy and shy and
it was a point in my life
where, you know, you're
just told that, you know,
it's better to be quiet than
to be talking all the time
because I was very chatty at one point
and I, 'cause I didn't
like being shy anymore.
I wanted to be outgoing and, you know,
I tried it and it was like, I got burned
when I did that and so it's
just a big thing in life.
You have to really know
that you can always grow,
right, to not allow things
that have happened in your past
to fixate you, that you aren't
good at anything anymore,
that you can still grow no matter what,
that you don't have to be satisfied
with what somebody has told you,
that you weren't any good, right,
and it's just, again, eye opening,
especially on the relationship part,
there's a lot of good things in there
about how somebody with a fixed mindset
thinks that you can't grow, right,
in relationship you won't
ever be able to grow
if, you know, you have, if you,
essentially cling on to
specific things, right,
and you don't like the way
somebody does something,
well if you would just tell them that
and then realize that a
person can grow out of that
and that nobody is perfect, right,
and it's, you're only gonna get people
that are essentially, you know,
everybody has their faults, right,
but you have to realize
that, yes, they will grow,
they will, as long as you
address them, they will know.
They can't read your mind, they will grow.
And, like, again, there's
some great benefits
out of the book that really
just are very eye opening
and I really did some self-analysis
and being self-aware on
what I have been approached
and to try to really keep an open mind,
especially like the child
development and stuff.
Like I said, there was all
these different aspects
that affect my life in particular
that they all meant
something to me, right,
and there wasn't a time in the book
where I didn't get something,
and then you kind of value,
right, it had so many different scenarios,
which a lot of them I've been through,
so I was like wow, this is a good way
to approach it and a good way to see it
in especially like development, you know,
you want to be able to help children
without hindering them, right,
and not allowing them to grow
'cause as you, especially
as you're kids, you know,
you think about this, when you're kids,
you don't have any
expectations or anything
and you just, you're free thinking, right,
and then we're molded into this idea
that, you know, you can only do so good,
so much, you know, and
that if you don't score,
you know, a 90 on a test,
that that makes the,
you're limited and you're
just no good at that
and that's what's hard
is that kind of situation
would have to be approached
differently, right.
Yes, you did bad, but what did you do
to prep ahead of time, right?
Did you actually study?
Did you, how much effort
did you put into it?
And it's just the way you
approach different things.
If you approached it in a growth mindset,
it would help tremendously
and leave a great impact,
right, so I hope you
guys liked this review.
This book, I think, was absolutely gold.
There was tremendous value in this book
and I know anybody that would pick it up
would get absolute value.
This is a like a must read.
This is definitely one
of my top three reads.
That's for sure, if not number one
because I've always been
talking about mindset
and this book is phenomenal.
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