What is job crafting?
Turning the job you have into the job you want by aligning tasks, relationships, and perceptions with your motives, strengths, and passions.
What are two task-related challenges?
- Growth-mindset: believing you can improve
- Giving and getting feedback: how to improve
What is a fixed mindset?
- my abilities are set
- performance goals (looking smart)
- fear feedback
What is a growth mindset?
- my abilities can be grown
- learning goals (becoming smarter)
- use feedback
What is the difference between a fixed and a growth mindset in the case of failure?
People with growth mindsets believe failure is an opportunity to learn while people with a fixed mindset believe that failure is the limit to their abilities.
A growth mindset allows people to see failure as I did not succeed YET
What are four ways in which we can learn from success?
- Replicate the success
- Improve the process
- Anticipate changes in the future and build into
the process - Share the best practices
What are four ways in which we can learn from failure?
- Identify the underlying cause
- Correct the issue(s) and build new processes
- Make opportunities for success in the future
- Share the “worst” practice
How can fear of failure help or stifle growth?
Mild fear of failure could be motivating but moderate-extreme fear of failure is paralyzing
How can we reframe the relationship between failure and success?
- Success and failure are rarely end states; they are
stages in a process, information to be used. - To continue to develop and improve you must think
of failure as an opportunity to learn - Failure is the complement to success, not it’s
opposite.
What prevents people from learning from success?
- overconfidence/hubris
- Fundamental Attribution Error
- fear of losing what you have
What prevents people from learning from failure?
- self-doubt
- fixed mindset
- fear of making things worse
What is the overlap between why people are prevented from learning from success and failure?
Difficulty seeking/taking feedback
What are 5 ways in which feedback can be flawed?
- Attacks the person rather than the person’s behavior: who or what you’re blaming matters
- Vague or abstract assertions: lack of clarity around what the problem is
- Lacks illustration: what specifically the person is doing wrong
- Poorly defined range of application: under what conditions? when? always?
- Unclear impacts and implications for action: what dysfunctional consequences are being produced, why this is important, and how this should be fixed
What should feedback be?
- specific
- actionable
- about the task, not the person
What is the adversity hypothesis?
People need adversity to reach the highest levels of
strength, fulfillment, and personal development
How can adversity be beneficial?
- improves our self image (i can do it)
- aligns us toward relationships
- shifts priorities towards the present
When is post-traumatic growth most likely to occur?
- adversity happens in young adulthood
- one has social and psychological resources to draw on for support
- it is not so extreme that is causes post-traumatic stress syndrome
What is a redemption narrative?
Redemption involves growing from adversity to achieve a greater goal
What is true for people with themes of redemption
in their life stories?
- experience less stress and anxiety
- excel in job interviews
- tend to be more generous and less selfish
What is a contamination narrative?
Contamination involves having something good until it was (unfairly) taken from you forever
What is true for people with themes of contamination
in their life stories?
- lower life satisfaction and self-esteem
- higher rates of depression
- negative views of other people and the world
