In this episode, we discuss the importance of having a growth mindset while also working on your productivity.
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Hi Everyone, welcome to the You’re Daily Cup of Joe Podcast, with your host Joe Bautista, where my goal is to give you quick lessons on how to grow yourself physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually so you can have better careers, better relationships, and better personal finances.
I’m also the author of the book “More You Know, More You Grow: How to Get Better Every Day”. In this book, I wrote down over 30 tips to help you grow in those four cornerstones.
In today’s episode, we’re are going to talk about the value of having a growth mindset. Aristotle had a great line when he said that the sum of its parts is greater than the whole. So if you have the right two plus two plus two, it won’t add to 6, it can be greater than six.
The history of mankind has proven that we can get more out of life than what we see in our environment if we have the right mindset. A hundred years ago, no one really had a computer on their mind. Five hundred years ago, people didn’t have electricity on their minds, but those innovative breakthroughs helped propel humans to a new height in what we can accomplish as a species.
We can have more in life if start saying what if instead of that can happen. As soon as you assume a fixed mindset, it’s over, whatever is in front of you, is what you’re going to get. If you don’t like your job or your relationships and don’t ask what if, then you’re going to be stuck with those crappy jobs and relationships.
Then you start to get possessive over little stuff and it’s just not good for the world. A better mindset is to have a growth mindset. Instead of trying to get more out of a pie by making smaller slices figure out a way to make a bigger pie.
How can you be more productive as a person? That’s what it comes down to. How can you do more with the resources you have. This is why I learn to type fast and use shortcuts on the keyboard because it makes me faster as a person and it doesn’t take much training but the gains are huge.
If it takes me a minute to write thirty words, then it will take me an hour and forty minutes to write a 3,000-word document. If I can learn how to type at eight minutes per minute than I can finish that document in 37.5 minutes which will save me an hour to do other things.
Sometimes you need to learn how to be more productive by being a better manager of people and putting people in a position where they can win, instead of forcing something that is not going to work. That can save you a lot of time and make you more productive.
If I can write more pages than other folks, then I can put more work out there for the world and better brand myself. This can be a lot of work and it can suck at times, but when you learn how to be more productive, you’re making the world a better place.
To be more productive, you have to continually invest in your skills and in yourself. If you’re not putting the right fuel in your body, you’re not going to be productive. If you’re still doing things the same way from what you learned in high school 20 years ago, you’re not going to be productive. If you only know how to address conflict by staying quiet, then you’re not going to be productive.
Life can be a whole lot better when we realize how to be productive. It can give you the ability to spend more time with your family. Give you more time to work on yourself. It can make you more money because you can get more jobs done in less time.
When I work on myself, physically, mentally, emotionally, and spiritually, I know that it can have a multiplying effect. I can go from an income of $40k a year to $200k a year by working on the right things. If I don’t work on the right things to become more productive then I just bump up to $42k a year.
So you have to realize that every skill is created equally and you have to focus on the ones that will give you the biggest return. They might be uncomfortable. I tell people constantly that they should go take an improv class because it will teach you how to listen, how to say what is on your mind, and to be comfortable with being uncomfortable. But not everyone takes this advice because they have a fixed mindset that tells them that they can’t do it.
You literally just need to pay your money and show up and to continue to show up. And that’s is going to be required for you to grow and be more productive. Try something, suck at it, try again, get a little bit better, and keep following this process until you’re proud of the results.
This will help you become an A player and A players are 32 times better than B players. Look at the NBA and I love basketball and I know that an A Player like Damian Lillard is at least 32 times better on the court than a C player in the NBA. The NBA has a lot of good players that would beat me any day but in the realm of the NBA system, there are A, B, C, D, and F players. And A players give their team a lot of growth. NBA is a fixed system where there can only be one winner but in the real world, we can have multiple winners and just grow the pie to something much much bigger than it currently is. We just have to become better individuals to do it.
That’s it for today’s episode, to summarize it, remember that the sum of its parts can be greater than the whole. So if you work on your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual self, you can get a multiplying effect that can take your life much higher in than it currently is, but that is going to require a growth mindset and a growth mindset always starts with what if instead of no.
Thanks for listening to today’s episode.
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