Carol Dweck gave us the language of fixed and growth mindset - a mind closed to learning, and a mind that stays open. In this episode of The Box of Keys, I explore what growth looks like when you carry it like an artist does: the dancer or musician who knows, even after decades of graft, that the work is never quite finished. I call it being intentionally dissatisfied - the discipline of improvement without the anxiety of inadequacy. Knowing you can still get better doesn't mean you aren't good enough today. You'll hear why skill drains away like dry sand slipping through your fingers if it isn't continually replenished, why leaders who believe they're the finished article start protecting their competence instead of extending it, and why the ones who stay alive to their work choose, again and again, to stay unfinished on purpose. A short reflection on making learning the work - and keeping it that way.
Carol Dweck gave us the language of fixed and growth mindset - a mind closed to learning, and a mind that stays open.
In this episode of The Box of Keys, I explore what growth looks like when you carry it like an artist does: the dancer or musician who knows, even after decades of graft, that the work is never quite finished. I call it being intentionally dissatisfied - the discipline of improvement without the anxiety of inadequacy. Knowing you can still get better doesn't mean you aren't good enough today.
You'll hear why skill drains away like dry sand slipping through your fingers if it isn't continually replenished, why leaders who believe they're the finished article start protecting their competence instead of extending it, and why the ones who stay alive to their work choose, again and again, to stay unfinished on purpose.
A short reflection on making learning the work - and keeping it that way.