Courage | Curiosity | Creativity
Notes and Musings from Dr Judy Brown and guests writers circling the topics of leadership, stewardship, poetry, creativity, diversity, dialogue and appreciative inquiry and renewal.
I've been thinking a lot about the work of Carol Dweck about two contrasting mindsets-- the first is the growth mindset where we think that intelligence and other ability is malleable. And if we keep working at it we will do better.
The second is what she calls a fixed mindset--where we think talents and intelligence are pretty much a given. Fixed. And when I hit a setback it means I'm not as smart as they tell me.
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We saw the huge bald eagle
Only thirty feet away,
Near water’s edge,
Swimming toward us
Wings stretched
In a bird-like
Breast stroke;
The whorls, the eddies
Of each stroke that
She had taken
Read MoreThis last week a group of twenty-five of us met for the third and final week together in our leadership program. As has been our tradition, we began and ended our gathering with a check-in/check-out process, what we have begun to call a "fire circle". Round-robin, one at a time, we listen to each others musings, and reflections on what is most on our hearts and minds.
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