Quotes About Growth

Big changes can start with very small steps. Small changes tend to snowball. But this is not the same as saying that change is easy.

Learn to recognize your own scripts. Play with them, poke at them, disrupt them.

Both women experienced moments of self-insight sparked by "stretching." To stretch is to place ourselves in situations that expose us to the risk of failure.

Self-understanding comes slowly. One of the few ways to accelerate it—to experience more crystallizing moments—is to stretch for insight.

Fill pits, then build peaks.

big changes come from a succession of small changes. It's OK if the first changes seem almost trivial. The challenge is to get the Elephant moving, even if the movement is slow at first.

has a problem focus when he needs a solution focus. If you are a manager, ask yourself: "What is the ratio of the time I spend solving problems to the time I spend scaling successes?

The Springboard. Denning

Once people are on the path and making progress, it's important to make their advances visible. With

The video game industry is more than 4 times the size of the movie industry, and about 9 times the size of the music industry.

When you've celebrated moving from 1 to 2, and then from 2 to 3, you gain confidence that you can make the next advance.

growth mindset compliment praises effort rather than natural skill:

A small win reduces importance ('this is no big deal'), reduces demands ('that's all that needs to be done'), and raises perceived skill levels ('I can do at least that')." All three of these factors will tend to make change easier and more self-sustaining.

Like a solutions-focused therapist, look for the flashes of success.

the growth mindset can be taught and that it can change lives.

to create and sustain change, you've got to act more like a coach and less like a scorekeeper. You've got to embrace a growth mindset and instill it in your team.

Teach the growth mindset. Every success is going to involve rough patches.

achieving success requires some failures along the way. Don't beat yourself up when those failures occur.

At this "insight" stage, it's easy to get depressed, because insight doesn't always strike immediately.

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Mindset, by Carol Dweck

The growth mindset, then, is a buffer against defeatism. It reframes failure as a natural part of the change process.

One Small Step Can Change Your Life, by Robert Maurer [Individual and organizational change]. If you liked the chapter on shrinking the change, this is your book. Maurer shows how small steps can lead to great change.

new habits can clear the Path.