The Thriving Mindset: Tools for Empowerment in a Disruptive World

Cultivating a Thriving Mindset is the way to access emerging opportunities and thus participate in the most exciting time in human history. That requires three things, all of which we have outlined in this book. It requires an understanding of the new era (the Learning Economy) we now live in, an understanding of the Adversity-Fear-Paralysis Cycle,

The shrinking world that interconnectivity and globalization have brought means that there’s more competition than ever before.

The key is to make yourself a life-long learner (and cultivate your Intellectual Capital) so that you have the idea-currency to be valuable.

The pace of change means an ever decreasing need for manual labor and routine work, and people will need to constantly re-skill in order to remain productive and valuable.

•The pace of change and disruption in organizations means that the career stability our parents had (when people could spend an entire career advancing at a single company) is a thing of the past.

In my case, a disruptive change (i.e., the introduction of audiobooks and eBooks) has broken down a barrier and opened opportunities that were previously unavailable.

We can think of the disruption and excitement as opposite sides of the same coin.

At the beginning of this book, I referred to the era we’re currently living through as the most disruptive time in human history. That’s true, but there’s another equally valid perspective: It’s also the most exciting time in human history.

2.What negative story might you be telling yourself about something that happened in your past? 3.Is there a negative story that someone else told you and that you’ve continued to carry forward and repeat? 4.What self-imposed limitations are you carrying?