88. Embracing the Growth Mindset

My name is Patrick McGilvray, and I’m an experienced marathoner, ultra runner, Sports Nutritionist, Master Life Coach, and weight loss coach for runners. I’ve dedicated my life to helping runners just like you properly fuel your body and your mind. So you can get leaner, get stronger, run faster and run longer than you ever thought possible. This is Running Lean.

Hey there, and welcome to Episode 88, of Running Lean. My name is Patrick McGilvray, your host and the weight loss coach for runners. And today I’m talking about embracing the growth mindset. I talk a lot about mindset. And your mindset is absolutely one of the most powerful tools you have at your disposal. Armed with the right mindset, there’s almost nothing you can’t accomplish.

Whatever it is that you want for yourself, if you’re trying to lose weight, or you want to run an ultra marathon, the right mindset will absolutely get you there. Mindset is not always positive, though, the wrong mindset can keep you stuck and keep you from realizing your true potential. So if you can’t ever seem to make forward progress, or you’re feeling like a failure, your mindset probably got you there too.

So today in this episode, I’m talking about two very distinct mindsets, the fixed mindset, and the growth mindset. And why embracing the growth mindset is key to accomplishing everything that you want in your life.

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So why am I talking about this today? Well, I’ve recently been reading Mindset, the book by Carol S. Dweck. And basically, the book lays out two very distinct mindsets. And I see these two mindsets playing out every day, in my coaching practice. So every day I coach people and help them with their nutrition strategies, with their weight, with their physical fitness, with building strength, and endurance.

And I see these two very distinct mindsets in different people every day and I realized that I have had one of these mindsets for most of my life. And it was kind of keeping me stuck. And I’ve changed my mindset, you know, over the last five years or so, something like that. And I’ve really adopted a different mindset. And things have changed dramatically for me.

So I don’t struggle as much with decision-making. I don’t get down on myself as much I don’t dwell on my mistakes. I don’t see failures as the end, I see failures as learning experiences. I’m always learning and growing. So I’m going to talk about these two mindsets today. And I had planned on talking about this topic in a later episode.

But I got a comment recently, from a follower on Instagram, Rick, and he said, “Hey, I’m crossing my fingers this is what the podcast will be about this week.” And because I had written a post about these two mindsets, and he wanted to hear more about this. So Rick, this one’s for you, my friend. And the topic I was going to talk about, we’ll just do that another time. It’s all good.

But this is just so fresh on my mind right now that I wanted to just dive into this and share my thoughts on these two mindsets with you guys here. So really, it’s all about mindset. I say this all the time, mindset is everything, whatever it is that you want. It’s your mindset that will get you there. If you’re feeling stuck, and you just feel like you can’t seem to move forward. It’s your mindset that got you there. Mindset is powerful.

And this is one of the reasons why I talk about it’s so much a lot of coaches that teach you to know physical fitness or personal trainers, or running coaches, they don’t talk about the mindset that much. But for me, it’s like fundamental. With the right mindset, you can face huge challenges, like losing 50 pounds, or running an ultra-marathon. Like these things are huge and hard to do.

But with the right mindset, you can absolutely do it, it doesn’t mean it’s going to be a piece of cake, it’s going to be like a cakewalk. It’s like super simple, but it does mean that you can persevere and you can absolutely achieve whatever it is that you want for yourself, okay?

But the mindset has this other side – mindset can also keep you from ever achieving those things, no matter how much you want it, how badly you want it, or how hard you try with the wrong mindset is going to be super hard for you.

And a lot of times, people just don’t even bother trying, right? And this is all based on the wrong mindset. Okay, so the two mindsets, they’re basically two mindsets that we’re going to be talking about today, the fixed mindset, and the growth mindset. And we all display traits of both of these like we all use a fixed mindset in certain situations, and we adopt a growth mindset in certain situations. But for most people, one of these is always the predominant mindset, okay.

And today, as I’m talking about each one of these mindsets, and I’m describing their characteristics, I want you to think about which one you most identify with. Now, you’re going to be tempted to think, oh, you know, I’m definitely the growth mindset because it’s the one we should all be adopting more of. But I want you to be honest with yourself because it’s only in being completely honest with yourself, that you can learn and grow.

And listen, if you think that you don’t need to learn and grow like you already know all this. That’s kind of the fixed mindset talking right there. Okay, it’s very meta. So let’s get into this.

What is the fixed mindset? So in a fixed mindset, you believe that your talent, your intelligence, your potential, your abilities, they’re all fixed, that your success is based on your innate abilities. In other words, you either have it or you don’t. So if you have a fixed mindset, people with a fixed mindset are most likely not, you’re not living up to your true potential.

People with a fixed mindset believe that you sort of have to be born with it, you got, you got to just like have that natural ability, that natural potential, that natural grit. And if you don’t have it, then you just you don’t have it.

People with a fixed mindset don’t see failure as part of the learning process, they see failure as the end, that’s it, I tried something, I failed, I’m going to just try something else. Like, I’m just going to give up on that dream, I’m going to give up on that goal.

Failure doesn’t mean you know, I tried something that didn’t work, I’m gonna like go at this from a different angle, I’m going to keep trying, I’m going to keep going, I’m gonna learn from this. No, they just see failure as I am a failure. I am a bad person, they make it mean something about their self-worth. I’m incapable of accomplishing this.

If you have a fixed mindset, you probably aren’t seeking out new challenges. Because to try them to go after something big and to fail. It’s just too devastating. Even a temporary setback would be seen as a total disaster to someone with a fixed mindset. So I coach a lot of people on these on all this stuff.

And the two mindsets become very clear, just after a few coaching sessions with someone like I kind of get where they’re kind of coming from most of the time, okay. So for example, if I’m coaching someone on weight loss, losing weight is never a linear process.

There are lots of ups and downs, lots of stops and starts, you might lose five pounds one week, and then you next week, you gain two pounds. I’ve never seen anybody just lose weight exactly perfectly, you know, one or two pounds every single week until they get to their goal weight, there are always fluctuations up and down.

But for people with a fixed mindset, this is devastating. They have such a hard time dealing with this because they see the scale going up. And they’re like, oh, I can’t do it. See it? Nothing ever works for me. You know, here’s the proof. Look, the scale went up, I’m just destined to be overweight, I’m destined to be at this weight forever. Who might think I could ever change?

That’s a fixed mindset, attitude right there. So those with an intense, fixed mindsets, they won’t even try to lose weight. Why would they even bother? I probably don’t see a lot of these people. Because people with a real intense fixed mindset, don’t seek out coaching, they’re not looking for help accomplishing a goal, because why would they hire a coach if they just believe it would never work for them?

Okay, so most of the people that I work with are, you know, they might have a little bit more of a fixed mindset, but they’re not, like, totally engrossed in it. Okay. And I know this, this fixed mindset example might seem like it’s a little exaggerated, but I promise you it’s not this is a very common scenario as this plays out, okay.

Another trait of the fixed mindset is shuttling responsibility fixed mindset. People don’t take responsibility for their results. They blame other people for their failures. They blame other people and situations for their setbacks. Because it’s not their fault. Like they’re doing everything they can.

But then there are all these other obstacles in the way there’s nothing, there’s nothing that they can do about it because they’re, they’re fixed, right? They’re doing everything they can. So instead of taking responsibility for the results, they blame other people. They blame things that are happening around them so that they don’t have to be accountable and that they don’t have to learn and grow because they don’t believe they can.

So in a fixed mindset, it kind of appears that nothing ever seems to go your way and there’s nothing you can do about it. That’s where the fixed mindset is, is pretty harsh. It’s like, here’s, here’s how I am. Here’s how I’m wired. And there’s nothing I can do about it. I can’t grow. I can’t change. I can’t evolve, and I can’t become more. Right?

I have a long history of being in a fixed mindset. I was in a fixed mindset for most of my life. When I was a teenager, here’s an example. I was in this band. All right, and we were kind of a popular band back in the day. This is back in the 80s, right. And I played the keyboards, and I had been taking piano lessons. And so I’m like, you know, I was the guy that knew a little bit about playing keyboards, or whatever.

But here’s the thing, I had a very fixed mindset. I never thought that I had the same innate talent and abilities that the other musicians I was playing with had, I always thought other musicians as more talented as naturally gifted. They had this natural ability to, you know, make their instrument come alive. And I just never could do that. And I just sort of felt stuck.

I felt like I was not naturally talented. I didn’t see talent as something that I could learn over time. With practice and dedication, I saw it as either you had it or you didn’t. And I did not have it. So I quit, I ended up quitting the band in my early 20s. And then I just never really thought of myself as a musician ever, ever again. So that was me.

Even at an early age being in this fixed mindset, had I adopted a growth mindset. And we’ll talk about the growth mindset here in a moment. But had I adopted a growth mindset, who knows where I’d be today, probably some, you know, huge rock star, something like that.

But then later in life, I wanted to be a runner, like, in my 30s. You know, I was like, you know, what, I really want to be a runner, I see these people running on Saturday mornings, and I thought, I want to do that. But I was like, there’s no way that’s just not me. I am not a born runner. I can’t become a runner.

Also, for me, most Saturday mornings were like, I was super hungover from, you know, a night of drinking alcohol and smoking cigarettes. So there’s no way I could ever be one of those runners. I’m just like, I was too out of shape. I never thought I could get in that kind of shape. Like my health and fitness were fixed.

This is this was my mindset, okay. And the idea of trying to become a runner, and failing at it, it was just too much for me. So if I tried and failed, it meant that I was a failure. That meant that I could never become a runner. So why would I even bother? It’s much safer to just avoid all that altogether. And then I never have to feel like a failure. This is the fixed mindset right here. Okay.

Now, this line of reasoning doesn’t make any sense to me today, because that’s, this is not who I am anymore. I definitely have more of a growth mindset. And I’ve worked hard at it. But at the time, I thought that’s, that’s just who I was. And I wasn’t capable of change. I wasn’t capable of becoming more.

So the overarching message for me was don’t try anything too hard. And you’ll never have to feel like a failure. This is the overarching message of the fixed mindset. And I hear it show up with people that I coach as well.

So I’ll hear people say like, you know, I’m really having a hard time losing weight. And so I’m okay, if I just stayed this way, I’m okay. If I just don’t ever lose the weight. Maybe this is just a good weight for me. When deep down, they desperately want to lose the weight.

That is the fixed mindset where it can kind of get a little bit sneaky and start you start to convince yourself that this is just as good as it gets like you can’t become more you can’t accomplish this goal. Because, you know, you’re just too afraid to fail.

And listen, this isn’t about whether I think people should or shouldn’t lose weight. This is not for me to say this is for you to decide if this is what you want for yourself. What I’m talking about here is people that say, this is what they want for themselves, but then they don’t do it because they’re afraid of failing. This is what I’m talking about. That’s the fixed mindset in action. Right there.

Okay, so let’s talk about the growth mindset because this is the one that I have been working on so hard, and this is the one that I really want to share with you guys. So in the growth mindset, you don’t believe that talent, intelligence, abilities, and potential are fixed, but these things are malleable, they can always be learned and always be improved upon.

In the growth mindset, you believe that your success is not based on innate abilities and talents, but rather your success is based on your hard work, your practice your determination, your grit, your discipline. In the growth mindset, you’re always striving to reach your true potential. And in the growth mindset, you also understand that potential, it’s kind of a moving target.

And that you can always learn, you can always grow, you can always become more always in forever. This is my mantra these days is just like always growing, always becoming more people with the growth mindset, don’t see failure as the end, they see it as a necessary part of the learning and growing process.

People with the growth mindset see failure, not as something to avoid at all costs, but as a prerequisite for all success. People with a growth mindset know that every success is built upon a pile of failures. So they don’t see failure as a problem, just an opportunity to learn and grow and try something else.

So failure is just one thing that didn’t work like, oh, I tried that it didn’t really work. Let’s try something else. Let’s see if this works better. I deal with this all the time with people who are trying to we’re trying to figure out the right, you know, diet for someone, you know, the right meal plan.

And there’s no right answer that works for everybody. I’m just going to tell you that right now. And so there’s some trial and error there. Oh, let’s try eating you know, this much protein. Let’s try eating this, this many carbs this week. And let’s see if that makes a difference. Oh, you feel better? Okay, good. Let’s, let’s keep doing more of that.

Or oh, that didn’t really work for you. Running is still hard. Okay, well, let’s try something else. So for somebody with a growth mindset, failure never means I am a failure. People with the growth mindset don’t internalize failure, they don’t make it all about themselves or their self-worth, they don’t see themselves as less worthy because of a failure, a setback, or some disappointment. They just keep going. They just keep making progress.

People with a growth mindset aren’t afraid to do big things. They’re not afraid of facing challenges, because failure isn’t the end of the line. It’s part of the process. And it’s going to happen, we expect failure in the growth mindset. And we just embrace it and just keep going.

So how does this play out? Well, I can also tell in my coaching, I can tell the growth mindset people right away, too. They understand that if they’re trying to do something like lose weight, that is not a straightforward process. They’re okay with that. They’re not fazed by the ups and downs of the scale. They’re just like, oh, yeah, I get it. I, you know, weight went up again. But I’m committed to doing this. And I understand how this works. So I’m just going to keep going.

They see it as part of the process, they see it as the path to success. And they’re always learning and growing from it. You know, they might say to themselves, like, what did I do this past week that contributed to a little bit of a weight gain? You know, what can I do differently this week to get better results. This is how growth mindset people attack setbacks.

People with a growth mindset, they’re willing to go after hard things, they’re willing to do challenging things. They’re not afraid of failure, but failing. I work with a lot of people who are of the growth mindset, which is awesome. This one woman, in particular, she’s training for her very first 5k.

She’s never seen herself as a runner, but she made a decision that she wanted to become a runner. And for her running was always too hard. Right? She’s never really gone after like becoming a runner before because it’s just been like too hard.

But now, she’s on this training plan. And she’s been doing this for a month or two now. And she’s loving it. She says she finally feels like a runner for the first time in her life. And it hasn’t always been easy. She’s had some tough runs. She’s felt terrible. Sometimes she’s had some setbacks and failures. But she keeps on going with the growth mindset. It doesn’t matter what you’ve done in your past or not. What matters is that you’re doing what it takes today, to grow and improve yourself, and become more.

She’s going to become this. She’s going to do her first 5k here soon. And I’m so excited for her because it takes me right back to those days when I wanted to become a runner. And I started and I could visualize doing my first 5k that’s the growth mindset in action.

This is not who I am, but this is who I want to become. And I’m going to go after it. I’m going to do it. I don’t care how hard it is. I don’t care if I fail. I don’t care if it’s It’s challenging. I don’t care if I mess up or you know, I have setbacks or it feels terrible. Sometimes I’m going to keep going, I’m going to accomplish this goal. That’s the growth mindset right there.

So every time I talk to her, I just, I feel so good, because when she talks about running these days, she just lights up. She loves it. She’s a runner, and she’s so proud of herself. And it’s palpable, that feeling I just love it, love it. Definitely someone of the growth mindset. Also, people with the growth mindset take responsibility for everything for all of their results, the good and the bad.

They don’t blame other people. They don’t blame circumstances. They don’t. They don’t like shun all the responsibility, they own it. They own their successes and their failures, and they learn from them, and they move on with a growth mindset.

These are people who take ownership of all of their results. They know what they can control, which is their own thoughts, feelings, and actions. And they know what they can control, which is basically everything else.

So I call this concept radical responsibility. This is taking responsibility for all of your results no matter what. And people with a fixed mindset, people definitely do not do this. They always have stories and reasons and excuses for why things aren’t working for them. On the other hand, the people with the growth mindset, you know what, they have results.

So, here are a couple of my experiences with the growth mindset. I just want you guys to understand something if you find yourself more in a fixed mindset, it doesn’t mean you’re stuck there forever. Doesn’t mean you’re doomed forever like you can never change like this is just who you are, you can change your mindset.

And so I used to be more of a fixed mindset. And now I’m not. Over the last few years, I’ve been really practicing this growth mindset I’ve been trying it on. And things are very different for me. So a couple of examples here.

A few years ago, I decided that I didn’t want to run marathons anymore. running marathons was too hard, right? Are you guys with me on this one? Do you have you ever felt this way? Like you’ve done some marathons and you’re like, well, that’s too hard. I’m just gonna stick with half marathons from here on out. Well, that was me. I had that attitude. And I could justify it. I had all these reasons and excuses.

I was like, oh, the training just takes too long. You know, running a marathon, what do you out there for all day, you know, with a half marathon, you can just go home when you’re done. And you know, you can still walk around the rest of the day.

And so I made this decision at some point that I’m just like, going to do half marathons from here on out. So a few years back. Well, this is the fixed mindset in action. Because marathons were hard. Marathons were challenging. There’s an element of suffering that you have to be able to endure if you want to run marathons.

And I didn’t want to deal with that I didn’t want I feared failing. That fear of failure kept me from doing big challenging things like this. So why would I even bother trying? So if I just tell myself, Oh, I just do half marathons. That’s the fixed mindset, keeping me stuck keeping me small, keeping me from doing big things. Stay safe, stay comfortable. Don’t try these big hard things. Because, hey, if you fail, it means that you know you are a failure, Patrick.

I don’t want to feel that way. But since I’ve adopted a new mindset, a growth mindset. I’ve completely shifted my thinking around all this. In fact, let’s see last year, I ran my first marathon and several years last year, and I also did my first Ultra in several years last year, so I did a marathon and a 50k towards the end of 2020. And then this year, I’ve already run a marathon.

I’ve got another marathon coming up, I’ll most likely do an ultra later on this year. And I’m not afraid of challenging myself anymore. I’m not afraid of pushing myself I don’t see failure. As a measure of my self-worth. I don’t see having a bad time during a marathon as meaning anything about me and my self-worth. I know I’m awesome. I know I’m a badass. I don’t have to prove this to myself or anybody else.

But I do want more for myself. I do like to push myself I do like to challenge myself. And I don’t want to be stuck in this fixed mindset anymore. So now I’m like back to running marathons back to running ultra marathons and it feels amazing. Another example of me embracing the growth mindset and moving away from this fixed mindset was when I decided that I was going to start eating meat again.

So I was plant-based vegetarian, and then plant-based for, like 15 years really. And I had started gaining a lot of weight during this time and decided that I needed to do something about this. And one of the things I did was I said, okay, instead of just being stuck in this fixed mindset and stuck with this fundamental principle of like, I don’t eat meat, I’m going to explore other options, I’m going to learn all about nutrition, I’m going to, you know, do a deep dive into this topic and learn about what other options are available for me, like, what is the right plan for me, what is the right diet for me?

And I did a lot of learning and a lot of growing and a lot of internal, there was some struggle with this decision, but I decided I was going to try eating meat again. And I did and things changed for me for the better. You know, this is a decision that I came to it was a personal decision that I made. And I would not have, I would not change it.

I’m still eating meat these days. And I think it was the right choice for me, I feel better, I’m healthier. And you know, I stopped eating all the sugar and the carbs and stuff like that too. But I really just embraced eating meat and got out of that fixed mindset. Because that fixed mindset was kind of keeping me stuck and keeping me not healthy and keeping me overweight.

And so I had to like embrace the growth mindset is the only way that I could be open to like, new ideas to learning new ways of doing things. Because if you’re just stuck with your ideology, and you’re stuck in this, like fixed way of doing things, if it’s not working for you, then you have to start adopting a different mindset, you have to adopt that growth mindset in order to change.

And so this is a glaring example of me being willing to try on again, try on the growth mindset and see how it felt and see how it changed for me. And so since then, I feel great. My health has never been better. I’m so glad I’m not stuck in that fixed ideology anymore.

And listen, I’m not bashing. You know, vegetarians are plant-based. If that works for you. That’s amazing. I mean, this is so awesome. This just works for me. Right? There’s nothing wrong with doing it that way. This just works for me.

So, here’s what I want you to think about here. Which of these mindsets do you identify with the most? So here are some questions for you. Is there something you want for yourself, but you’re too afraid to fail? Do you find yourself blaming others? Or circumstances for your results? Or your lack of results? Do you believe that your talents, your intelligence, your abilities are fixed? Like you either have it or you don’t? Do you tend to give up easily when you experience a setback? Or when things don’t go your way? Or don’t go as planned? Do you feel stuck? Do you feel like things are just never gonna work out for you?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, you’re probably more of a fixed mindset. That’s okay. Nothing wrong with that. Here are some other questions for you. Let’s see if you’re if you adopt a few relate to more of a growth mindset. So are there things that you do? Even though they’re challenging and hard? And you might fail? Do you go for them anyway? Do you take responsibility for all of your results? The good and bad? Do you believe that your talents, your intelligence, your abilities, your potential can be learned and improved upon when you experience a setback or a failure? Do you learn from it and try something else? Do you keep going no matter what even when Progress seems slow? Do you believe that you can always learn and grow and become more?

So if you answered yes to these, you’re most likely to have a growth mindset. And here’s the last thing I want to say if you identify more with a fixed mindset, it’s okay. You can work to change it. Just notice where your fixed mindset is keeping you stuck or keeping you from pushing yourself.

Now we all experience you know we all display these traits in different parts of our lives. So for different situations, we might have a fixed mindset. For other situations, we might have more of a growth mindset. You know, I talk to people all the time who say like, oh, yeah, I’m super dedicated and when it comes to running, I can get out there and do it and stick to it. I make a plan and I stick to the plan even when things don’t go my way, I can keep pushing myself, I keep moving forward, I learn from my mistakes, like, great, okay.

But then when it comes to their diet, it’s like, oh, it’s so hard, I can’t do it, I can never make a plan, I can’t stick to it, if things don’t go, right, it’s just devastating. You can see that there’s a fixed mindset in one area of their life, but a growth mindset and another, and I’m like, hey, you know what you can do? Copy and paste, copy and paste that attitude, that mindset into this other area of your life over here. And I’m sort of joking about it.

But I’m sort of not. Take those same principles, take those same thoughts and feelings, take those same thoughts, feelings, and action patterns, take that same mindset and apply it over here. That’s all it takes, really, it’s just start practicing doing this.

And this is not something that’s going to change overnight. It’s not like flipping a switch, you know, it’s like, oh, I want a growth mindset. So now I’ve got it. You just don’t announce it. Like, I now have a growth mindset, and then everything changes for you know, you got to practice it. Because it’s gonna, it’s going to take some practice, it’s gonna be challenging for you to do this. I’m, I’m telling you, it’s not, as you know, simple as I’m making it sound, it is simple.

It’s a simple concept. Apply this growth mindset to everything that you do. But it’s not easy. It’s simple, but it’s not easy. So just notice, where you’re feeling like, stuck, or feeling like you don’t want to do something because it’s too hard. This is your fixed mindset. You know, anytime you feel like I could never do that, that’s just not who I am. This is fixed mindset thinking.

Notice these places in your life where your fixed mindset is holding you back and try on the growth mindset instead. And then just notice other areas and try it on there as well. And just kind of rinse and repeat. Until this growth mindset becomes more second nature for you. Cool.

Remember, September is four weeks to fat adapted running over in the Running Lean coaching group. So we’re gonna go through exactly how to become a lean, fat-burning running machine, I want you to become the healthiest version of yourself. That’s my goal for you. I want that for you.

I hope you want that for yourself, too. So we’re gonna learn all about fat adapted running. Just go to runningleanpodcast.com/join. It’s not too late. We haven’t gotten started yet. We start next Tuesday. And I hope you got something out of this episode. Today. It was a lot of fun putting this together for you guys. And if you did get something out of it, please consider sharing it with a friend I love you all keep on Running Lean. Talk to you soon.

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