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Did you know\u2026<\/p>\n

\u2026Steve Jobs was ousted from the very company he helped build?<\/p>\n

\u2026Oprah was fired from her first television job because she was \u201cunfit for television news\u201d?<\/p>\n

\u2026J.K. Rowling was rejected by 12 different publishers?<\/p>\n

\u2026Michael Jordan was cut from his high school basketball team because the coach deemed him too short and inexperienced?<\/p>\n

\u2026Sara Blakely was repeatedly told that her idea, Spanx, wouldn\u2019t work?<\/p>\n

The reason why you know their names now is because they didn\u2019t let their circumstances deter them. They\u2019re living, breathing growth mindset examples<\/strong>\u2014people who embraced challenges, learned from their setbacks, and ultimately turned obstacles into opportunities.<\/p>\n

And if they can do it, imagine what you could achieve by adopting the same mindset.<\/p>\n

What is a growth mindset?<\/h2>\n

A growth mindset, a term coined by psychologist Carol Dweck, is the belief that you can get better at something through dedication and hard work<\/a>. You see challenges as chances to grow rather than as roadblocks, and you put in the effort to learn and improve along the way.<\/p>\n

A mind expanded doesn\u2019t ever shrink back to its original size. When you transform, it\u2019s an irreversible shift.<\/p>\n

Look at it this way: when you\u2019re faced with something you don\u2019t know how to do\u2014let\u2019s say, changing a tire\u2014do you tell yourself that you don\u2019t know how to do it and get someone else to do it for you? Or do you tell yourself, \u201cI don\u2019t know how to do this yet, but I can learn<\/em>\u201d?<\/p>\n

The latter is what this mindset<\/a> is all about. It\u2019s being open to learning, staying curious, and constantly improving.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen you adopt this idea of growth being [the #1 goal in life], what you start to find is that everything else grows with you<\/em>,\u201d explains Vishen<\/strong>, the founder and CEO of Mindvalley, in his Be Extraordinary<\/em> Quest. \u201cBut, better than that, when growth becomes number one, then failure doesn\u2019t hit you as much because you start seeing how you grew from that failure<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The two types of growth mindsets<\/h3>\n

According to Vishen, there are two main paths to transformation: through kensho<\/em> or through satori<\/em>. Here\u2019s what he means:<\/p>\n