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The Harvard Business School points out that a growth mindset helps entrepreneurs enter new fields easier and it develops [[Psychological resilience|resilience]] because "When challenges, setbacks, and failures inevitably arise, your business’s survival depends on your ability to persevere and learn from difficult situations."<ref>[https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/growth-mindset-vs-fixed-mindset GROWTH MINDSET VS. FIXED MINDSET: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?], Harvard Business School</ref>
The Harvard Business School points out that a growth mindset helps entrepreneurs enter new fields easier and it develops [[Psychological resilience|resilience]] because "When challenges, setbacks, and failures inevitably arise, your business’s survival depends on your ability to persevere and learn from difficult situations."<ref>[https://online.hbs.edu/blog/post/growth-mindset-vs-fixed-mindset GROWTH MINDSET VS. FIXED MINDSET: WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE?], Harvard Business School</ref>
=== Behaviors of those with a growth mindset ===
Those who adopt a growth mindset are more likely to:<ref>[https://www.mindsethealth.com/matter/growth-vs-fixed-mindset Growth Mindset vs Fixed Mindset: How what you think affects what you achieve]</ref>
- Practice lifelong learning
- Believe intelligence is not static and is subject to improvement
- Have more grit and therefore expend more effort in order to learn
- Put in the effort that leads to mastery of a topic or skill
- Embrace a trial and error method of learning and therefore view errors a merely temporary setbacks
- See errors as useful feedback that is a source of information ([[Thomas Edison]] learned many ways how not to create a lightbulb on his way to creating a lightbulb)
- Eagerly embraces challenges
- Sees others success as a source of inspiration rather than something to be envious about
- Views feedback from others as an opportunity to learn rather than something to be angry about or as something catastrophic
=== Graphical comparisons of a growth mindset vs. a fixed mindset ===
=== Graphical comparisons of a growth mindset vs. a fixed mindset ===