The good news is, regardless of where you land on the growth-to-fixed mindset continuum based on your genes, you have the ability to increase how often you experience life with a growth mindset.

Mindset as a Continuum. Mindset is a continuum, with growth mindset on one end of the spectrum and fixed mindset on the other. A person’s mindset can fit anywhere on the continuum.

This is problematic because it suggests that you either have one or the other when, in fact, mindset is a continuum. We all have the fixed and growth mindsets within us.

These mindsets fall along a continuum. A fixed mindset indicates a belief that traits, abilities, and conditions can’t be changed. For example, you may feel that no matter how many dance classes ...

Essential to his philosophy is the idea of a mindset continuum, where individuals can engage and elevate their thinking patterns from victimhood and blame to optimism and abundance. “We have the ...