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What Is a Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset?

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A fixed mindset is one that assumes a person’s habits, preferences, skills and even longings are fixed, perhaps even innate. This mindset restrictively inhibits people from self-improvement and learning new skills. Through her 2006 book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success , Carol Dweck, Ph.D., How we learn.

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Picking up skills along the EA career path

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I worked hard at that job and was rewarded with a promotion to Account Manager in 2006, yay! The Account Manager role was a little side step along my career path but required the same skills I would need in my next role as a PA and Administrative Manager. Learning how to use and fix a variety of office equipment.

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How to Understand People’s Personality Types

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Listening to them, learning the keywords that they use so I can effectively communicate with them, is critical. It’s putting into practice all of the stuff that I think some people just come to naturally but a lot of folks need to learn somewhere along the way.” Do not mistake confidence and speed for competence. Mayer, Ph.D.,

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The Urban Myth of Confidence

Men With Pens

A full-blown, firmly-declared, confident statement uttered with absolute certainty. However, there is one myth rarely mentioned, even though it maybe more harmful and hold more people back than all of the above myths combined: It’s the myth of confidence. Or rather, that people don’t have enough confidence. I ventured.

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Find Your Writing Confidence, No Alcohol Required

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Learn how to refinish furniture or knit or blow glass. You just learned how to stain a shelf – congratulations. You’re not worried about losing that skill forever tomorrow, are you? Find Your Writing Confidence, No Alcohol Required first appeared on Men with Pens Copyright 2006 - 2011, All Rights Reserved.

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What Freelancers Can Learn From Rodeo Announcers

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The announcer impressed me in part because he managed a skill I think every freelancer should have: how to work with a team of headstrong individuals, all of whom have different talents, without anyone wanting to kill him at the end of the show. It’s a tough skill, and a lot of freelancers never get it. Yeah, that’s what I thought.

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Win a Scholarship to Damn Fine Words, the Writing Course for Business Owners

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They learn new, effective writing techniques that speed up their content-creation process, get a huge boost of confidence, and learn how to produce all sorts of articles, blog posts, website copy and ebook content with pride and glee, completely stress-free. Better Writing'

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