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15 Signs Someone Has a Fixed Mind
How to avoid the rip tides
Like so many things, you can understand a growth mindset through its opposite — the fixed mindset.
Growth-minded people want to keep improving. They hunt down advice and criticism. They don’t try to fake their way through anything. They know the thrill of earning a compliment from their biggest skeptics. They know it’s all the failures that give success its flavor.
People with fixed mindsets say they’re interested in all these things, but they don’t mean it. Real growth is difficult.
They prefer to cheat, then congratulate themselves.
We’ve all met someone with an allergy to change. We also know how easy it is to get lost inside the labyrinth of your own ego. (It has so many dead ends). When someone retreats that far into themselves, there’s almost nothing you can do — except learn from their mistakes.
1. They praise themselves constantly.
Have you ever gotten trapped in a conversation where someone actually starts giving themselves compliments? Every single one of us has felt the temptation to sing our own praises to ward off insecurity. But when you actually hear someone else do it, you understand just how ridiculous it sounds. Sometimes you have to talk yourself…
