 How you think about things and what your mental approach is matters Hey, everyone Dylan Schumacher Citadel Defense and I've ran into this concept before but I've been reading a book recently and in the beginning it talked about a Fixed mindset versus a growth mindset and in the book they addressed it a little bit differently than how I'm gonna address it However, I think it's worth considering and thinking about So the basic two dichotomies are once in one hand you have a fixed mindset, right? Things are the way they are. I'm as smart as I'm gonna be when I see challenges And this is the big part that I think is helpful. I it's a test I either pass the test because I have what it takes or I fail the test because I don't have what it takes a Fixed mindset most of us by default Probably fall into the fixed mindset category and I certainly have about certain things in my life The other one would be a growth mindset, right which primarily views challenges as A way to grow and improve so I get to a challenge and I meet the challenge And I'm able to Grow and improve through the challenge the challenge helps me grow into a more proficient shooter a better person Etc. Etc. And those I think are really good big dichotomies Sorry, I'm in the middle of a lift here. Those are really good dichotomies for how to look at the world, right? And and how to approach the world in your life in general I don't want to give anything away here So I'm just gonna say I was in a class with an instructor once very good instructor And I remember him telling us Hey He gave us this test that most of us failed and I failed it and I was Superman and he said failure should feel good Failure should feel good because then you know where you need to grow Right, and I remember sitting there think feeling like crap and thinking this doesn't feel good I don't feel good at all. I'm gonna go home and do a bunch more dry fire So I never get here again, right? I remember being mad about it But in some ways I was fulfilling what he was saying, right? So I was growing, right? But I think that's an important way to look at it when I've gone to a lot of gun classes and when I go to gun classes And for my first I don't know 80% of my gun classes. I definitely had the fixed mindset mentality I'm gonna go into this class in this class as a test. I remember like prepping for classes being like I'm gonna I gotta go to this class. I gotta I gotta perform. I gotta be good It's a test and I'm either gonna meet it or I'm not right That's how I looked at test and our classes and I thought that was a good way to look at it It's embarrassing to admit on the internet, but that's what it is, right? I thought that that was a pro a good way to look at it And now as I've taken more and grown more I look at it as like, you know what? I'm gonna show up to this class I'm gonna learn as much as I can. There's gonna be things. I don't do well That's why I'm going to the class to learn these things that I don't do well I know I don't know that that's why I'm going to pay money and take time to learn that So that I can do it better, right and you can apply this to just about anything in your life But I think that's an important way to look at it Do you have a growth mindset or a fixed mindset if you have a fixed mindset? You are holding yourself back as a shooter That that's just the way it is the biggest barrier to your success is you Because you can't get out of your own head and I've been here to to improve because you are so preoccupied with how good you are or how good you think you should be and how you didn't match up to whatever expectation you set for yourself and Then you are crushed and consumed with that failure and you're unable to grow past it, right? I've been there. I know people who have been there. I've had people take my classes who I see there, right? And I think it's important to be able to recognize that and say wait a second This isn't this isn't what we should be doing I don't need to be concerned with Failing or failing or succeeding here in a class, right? An instructor told me recently That the classroom is your lab if you're gonna if you're gonna fail fail here because it's free bullet hit the berm No big deal, right? This is this is the place to not be as good as you want to be and I think that's an important way to look at it We need to grow through the challenges. We go to class We learn things and we're looking to grow you go out to practice today And you're learning things and you did or did not hit your time for your build drill or whatever you're doing and you're looking As that is an opportunity to grow Right and you can quit you can take yourself out of it You take your ego out of it and you quit being so preoccupied with whether or not you Failed or succeeded, right and you start thinking that is a challenge. I need to grow through and I would even argue That extends to real things in life, okay? So if something real ever happens and you have to pull out your gun to save your life That may or may not go the way you want it, right now Hopefully it doesn't go really bad, right like someone dies that shouldn't or something like that But I think you need to look at those as growth opportunities. Why do you think people in the military and? Police organizations do after-action reports after real-life events where people die They do after-action reports. Why to grow through in part to grow through that opportunity Right to be okay. This happened. We're gonna learn some lessons from it and we're gonna move on We're gonna grow through it. We're all still alive So how can we grow from that and I think that's an important way to look at it So I would encourage you if you have a fixed mindset to one recognize it Hey, I have a fixed mindset. That's a problem I'm holding myself back and the problem with you fixed mindset people and again I put myself in this category at times is that you think that you're being responsible Right you oldest children you you think oh, I'm being responsible and I'm I'm I'm achieving and I make holding myself to a standard And I'm really accomplishing instead of being free to take your ego out of it and grow through it Okay, so if you're in that recognize it and then shift to a growth mindset and say I'm meeting Challenges and looking them as opportunities to grow sound super corny sound super business bookie But I'm telling you the way you look at it matters and you talk to any high-level performer in anything shooting professional athletes whatever and They're gonna tell you one of the biggest struggles is themselves and getting out of their own way Get out of your own way allow yourself to grow allow yourself to fail that failure should feel good so that you can grow Hope that's helpful. 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