From the course: Cultivating a Growth Mindset

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Focus on effort over outcome to achieve results

Focus on effort over outcome to achieve results

From the course: Cultivating a Growth Mindset

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Focus on effort over outcome to achieve results

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- Outcomes can be beyond our control, but effort is in our hands. It's easy to become fixated on the end result, but dedication, work, and perseverance pave the way to achievement. Research tells us acknowledging hard work, strategies, and processes leads to greater motivation and resilience, especially when facing new challenges. And focusing on effort is a core component of a growth mindset, which champions progress and learning as well as achieving goals. Imagine you are working on a project. Of course, the outcome is important, but the hours of research, brainstorming, and trial and error are also crucial parts of the process. And by focusing on the efforts you put into a project, you are not pinning all your self-esteem and success on one moment when you complete the project. Rather, you are basing your confidence and perceived success on the steps you took to reach your end goal. This means, even if you don't achieve what you set out to, you will still have reasons to be proud…

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