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Carol S. Dweck - We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don't like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves ext... · the Daily Quote - Positive Daily Inspiration and Motivational Quote of the Day

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  Dot com. Welcome to the Daily Quote, the
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  podcast designed to kick start your day in a positive way.
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  I'm your host, Anna McGivern, and let's dive into today's
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  quote from Careless Dweck, Stanford psychologist and author
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  of Mindset, the New Psychology of Success.
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  She once wrote, we like to think of our champions and idols as
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  superheroes who were born different from us.
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  We don't like to think of them as relatively ordinary people
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  who made themselves extraordinary.
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  This quote destroys A comforting lie we tell ourselves.
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  The lie goes like this. Those people are special.
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  They were born with talent I don't have.
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  They're different from me, so of course they succeeded.
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  It's comforting because it lets us off the hook.
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  If they were born special, then our ordinariness isn't our
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  fault. We can stay exactly where we are
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  and blame genetics. But Dweck spent decades
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  researching high achievers, and here's what she found.
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  They weren't born superheroes. They were ordinary people who
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  did something extraordinary. They committed to growth.
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  Michael Jordan got cut from his high school basketball team.
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  He wasn't born the greatest. He made himself the greatest
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  through obsessive practice. JK Rowling was a single mother
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  on welfare when she started writing Harry Potter.
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  She wasn't born a legendary author, she became one through
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  persistence. Your idol started where you are
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  ordinary, maybe even less than ordinary.
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  What made them extraordinary wasn't their starting point.
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  It was their refusal to stay there.
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  Dwight calls this the growth mindset, the belief that
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  abilities can be developed through dedication and hard
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  work. The opposite is a fixed mindset,
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  the belief that talent is innate and unchangeable, that you
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  either have it or you don't. Guess which one keeps you
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  stacked, and guess which one creates champions.
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  So here's the question, what have you been avoiding because
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  you think you weren't born with the talent for it?
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  Because here's the truth, you probably weren't.
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  But that doesn't matter. Champions aren't born, they're
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  made. So go make yourself
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  extraordinary too. That's it for today.
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  I'm Anna McGivern, signing off for now, but I'll be back
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  tomorrow. Same pod time, same pod station
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  with another.