TMIT 29: Mindset Reset – What We Get Wrong About Growth Mindset
Update: 2025-09-29
Description
Mindset isn’t just “fixed” or “growth.” It’s a spectrum—and once you see that, you’ll understand yourself, your kids, and your family in a whole new way.
In this episode of The Most Important Thing, we translate insights from Mary C. Murphy’s Cultures of Growth into family life. What starts as a book about organizations becomes a practical guide for leading your home with clarity and calm.
What you’ll learn in this episode:
- Why everyone flips between fixed and growth mindsets depending on context
- The four predictable triggers that shape mindset: evaluation, high effort, critical feedback, and the success of others
- How to recognize a performative state—and why it’s the worst time for feedback
- Reframing high effort as progress, not failure
- How to weigh critical feedback with discernment
- Turning others’ success from a jealousy trigger into an inspiration spark
Takeaway:
Mindset isn’t static—it’s a spectrum we all move along. Seeing it this way unlocks compassion, resilience, and a culture of growth at home.
Resource:
Book: Cultures of Growth: How the New Science of Mindset Can Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations by Mary C. Murphy.
Get the book here.
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