Growth-Mindset-Adeline-Palmquist

The speaker, Adeline Palmquist, discusses how self-awareness and consciousness of our mindset impact our daily lives. She reflects on her own experience as a 17-year-old, facing challenges during the pandemic. Initially resistant to the idea of a growth mindset, she realizes that our mindset determines our perception of life. Shifting from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset allows us to overcome negativity and resentment, making life more enjoyable. Adeline's father, Alan Palmquist, shares how a growth mindset transformed his life. The key is being self-aware and conscious of how our thoughts and reactions shape our perspective. Adapting to setbacks becomes an opportunity for personal growth. Overall, our mindset has the power to change our lives for the better. Hello listeners, my name is Adeline Palmquist and today I'm going to be talking about how self-awareness and consciousness of our mindset affects our everyday life. If someone told 17 year old me to have a growth mindset I would have laughed in their face. In the moment when you're struggling with negative thoughts there is seemingly nothing anyone can say or do to help and that's because this is true. There is nothing anyone else can say because it comes from within and no matter how cheesy that sounds it's true. When I was 17 years old I was applying to colleges from my bed at home doing virtual school and locked in my house due to a global pandemic that just had to happen my senior year of high school. There were no soccer games, football games, homecomings, none of that. It felt like everything was working against me. Everything was harder, less fun, less funny and more gray. In a conversation I had with one of my teachers at the time she told me, Addie at what point are you responsible for your own suffering? At the time this made me scoff because seemingly my negative feelings were a result of things happening to me not the result of how I was reacting to these things because how could someone possibly have a positive mindset in these circumstances. I think back on that thing a lot. At what point are we responsible for our own suffering? It all comes back to mindset. A fixed mindset is one that limits us and allows these negative feelings to fester resulting in a resentment towards others and just towards life in general. This makes everyday life that much harder. Personally I found things like exercising or journaling or other self-help practices to be pointless and this made life somewhat miserable. In the moment shifting your mindset seems impossible and frankly useless but what I've come to learn is that rather than being useless it's actually the foundation to an enjoyable life. When you start focusing on things that you can actually change rather than things that simply cannot be, you begin to develop a growth mindset. Criticism becomes useful and challenges become rewarding. Let's take a minute to talk to my dad Alan Palmquist who has some insight on how a growth mindset changed his life. Insert interview. As we can see the mindset paradigm shift can be extremely rewarding but the most important part is being self-aware of this and conscious of how your thoughts and your reactions change the way in which you are thinking about things. Unforeseen circumstances that may cause a setback become challenges that will then make you a better person, student or worker. Almost everything becomes an opportunity to grow and life in turn becomes a whole lot more enjoyable. Thank you for listening today and I hope you tune in next time to hear more about how your mindset can change your life.