The Fortitude Chronicle: A Weekly Digest of Athletic Determination

The Fortitude Chronicle: A Weekly Digest of Athletic Determination

Welcome to The Fortitude Chronicle, a weekly newsletter devoted to helping you enhance mental fortitude and conquer life's challenges.

This week, we're shifting our focus to the indispensable concept of Growth Mindset. As individuals striving for peak performance and mastery in every endeavor, it's essential to understand that our ultimate potential is often dictated not just by our inherent abilities, but by our willingness to learn, evolve and prosper amidst challenges and setbacks.

In this edition, we will delve into a plethora of insights, reflections, and actionable strategies to help you foster and embody the principles of growth mindset.

Take Action: Self Awareness

  1. Engage in Self-Discovery: Regularly schedule introspective exercises, like journaling or mindfulness practices, to identify and record your strengths, values, and growth areas.

  2. Implement Strengths: Find ways to incorporate your recognized strengths into daily tasks and challenges. Make a conscious effort to use them as tools for problem-solving and enhancing resilience.

  3. Conduct Self-Assessments: Schedule routine self-evaluations. Use these to measure progress, receive feedback, and adjust personal goals. Remember, continuous improvement is key to achieving peak performance.

3 Posts This Week:

Featured:

Jacksonville Jaguars Wide Receiver, Calvin Ridley

Featured Episode:

How to Enhance Performance & Learning by Applying a Growth Mindset

Listen to this episode from Huberman Lab on Spotify. In this episode, I discuss how to build and apply a growth mindset — the practice of self-rewarding and focusing on learning and skill development through effort — to improve learning and performance. I also discuss how our internal narratives drive our ability to make progress. I contrast the growth mindset vs. the fixed mindset and describe how the type of feedback or praise we receive shapes our mindsets, and the huge advantage of rewarding and celebrating “verbs” (actions) rather than adjectives (performance labels). I also discuss data showing how stress can enhance performance and explain why the growth mindset works synergistically with the “stress-is-enhancing mindset,” and how to combine them. Whether you are a student, coach, therapist, parent, teacher or simply someone seeking to improve at something, this episode provides numerous science-supported tools for how to adopt a performance enhancing mindset. For the full show notes, visit hubermanlab.com. Thank you to our sponsors AG1: https://drinkag1.com/huberman Eight Sleep: https://eightsleep.com/huberman ROKA: https://roka.com/huberman InsideTracker: https://insidetracker.com/huberman Supplements from Momentous https://www.livemomentous.com/huberman Timestamps (00:00:00) Growth Mindset (00:02:55) Sponsors: Eight Sleep & ROKA (00:05:17) Mindset & Narrative (00:12:58) Intelligence Feedback vs. Effort Feedback, Identity Labels (00:20:10) Intelligence vs. Effort Praise: Performance, Persistence & Self-Representation (00:26:45) Fixed Intelligence vs. Growth Mindset (00:28:53) Tool: Intelligence (Performance) vs. Effort Narrative, Labels (00:32:30) Tool: Failure & Identity; Effort & Verbs (00:34:36) Sponsor: AG1 (00:35:41) Tool: Timing, Intelligence vs. Effort Praise & Performance (00:40:080 Fixed Mindset vs. Growth Mindset: Failure & Performance (00:50:28) Tool: Shift from Fixed Mindset (00:54:23) Sponsor: InsideTracker (00:55:30) Stress-is-Enhancing Mindset (01:05:53) How Stress Can Enhance Performance (01:13:21) Growth Mindset + Stress-is-Enhancing Mindset & Performance (01:20:36) Reframing Stress (01:25:45) Tool 1: Student & Teacher Mindset (01:28:17) Tool 2: Effort Praise/Feedback: Verbs not Labels (01:31:24) Tool 3: Errors & Seeking Help (01:32:58) Tool 4: Self-Teaching & Growth Mindset (01:34:35) Tool 5: Reframe “Mind is Like a Muscle” Analogy (01:39:20) Zero-Cost Support, YouTube Feedback, Spotify & Apple Reviews, Sponsors, Momentous, Social Media, Neural Network Newsletter Title Card Photo Credit: Mike Blabac Disclaimer