What is the Source of your Limiting Mindset?

Limiting Beliefs come from actual experience in your life.

Entrepreneurs often fail because they cling to limiting beliefs they've been conditioned to hold.

Limiting beliefs come from experience.

Often Limiting Beliefs come from very early life experience.

Limiting Beliefs may even come from early childhood education.

Generally speaking, society doesn't raise children to become adults who think like entrepreneurs.

In order to fit into society as adults, we are conditioned to think in more fixed mindset terms.

The fixed mindset works for society especially as they relate to intelligence, money, and authority.

In order to be aware of the fixed mindset concepts we have, we have to look at where we get them.

Intelligence

I.Q. Intelligence Tests

I.Q is one of the worst fixed mindset ideas.

You take an I.Q. test which rates you on a scale of average and above and below average I.Q.

Your I.Q. can label you throughout your life and affect whether you get into school etc.

Most of us develop an identity based on the perceived intelligence defined by I.Q. test.

We learn from society that I.Q. (or perceived intelligence) is FIXED.

I.Q. is a label I.Q. doesn’t change.I.Q. score can affect how

You take on challenges or notYou interact with others whose I.Q. may be higher or lower

Also, if Society says I.Q. is a scale that defines intelligence, your culture can either say .

I.Q. reflects your success and a high I.Q. means“You are gifted” Or a lower than average score means “You are stupid”

This type of societial pressure can 1. Keep you in fixed mindset about your potential .

And 2. Create negative self-talk about your potential and your ability to achieve a successful life.

You call yourself “stupid” and “I’ll never achieve anything”

Or you judge yourself in comparison to another which stops you from trying.

This fixed mindset about your intelligence is hard to unlearn when the culture celebrates the I.Q. score.

You have to throw away this limiting belief about your intelligence

You are the sole creator of your destiny.

Modern research has shown that intelligence is more multi-faceted. I.Q. isn’t a scale.

Instead of a fixed I.Q. like a half-full glass

Intelligence is more fluid and changes through your life

Intelligence is overflowing and not easily labelled so

Throw away that I.Q. score label you got in school

And remove that negative self-talk about your intelligence “abilities”

We all have glasses overflowing indefinitely

This is the “adult” way of thinking and it leads to a growth mindset.

Next time, we will look at the limiting beliefs about money.

In the meantime, you can check out “Develop your Success Mindset” at http://jgtips.com/smindset