Mindset

A presentation at Seattle DevOps Meetup in January 2021 in Seattle, WA, USA by Sasha Czarkowski (Rosenbaum)

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@DivineOps Mindset Sasha Rosenbaum @DivineOps

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@DivineOps Sasha Rosenbaum Black Belt Team Lead, Red Hat Dev Ops DevRel Customer Success @DivineOps

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@DivineOps

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@DivineOps You can learn new things, but you can’t really change how intelligent you are. 0% 100%

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@DivineOps ”A few modern philosophers… assert that an individual’s intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism…. With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.”

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@DivineOps Mindset

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@DivineOps Mindset Fixed Growth You can learn new things, but you can’t really change how intelligent you are. You can always substantially change how intelligent you are.

  • Carol Dweck. Mindset.

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@DivineOps Mindset Fixed Growth

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@DivineOps Mindset

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@DivineOps ”A few modern philosophers… assert that an individual’s intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism…. With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.” Alfred Binet Inventor of the IQ Test

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@DivineOps Ok, why is mindset important?

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@DivineOps Adopting a growth mindset will make you a happier human

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@DivineOps Chapter 1: School

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@DivineOps Personal Story

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@DivineOps Biology ComputerScience

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@DivineOps 94 68

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@DivineOps Technion-Israel Institute of Technology

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@DivineOps Obviously, I need to study harder!

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@DivineOps Well, this sucks, so…

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@DivineOps

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@DivineOps Fixed Mindset

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@DivineOps You are LAZY!

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@DivineOps Are you lazy?

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@DivineOps “The choice is not working or not working, but which type of work; even feeling guilty because of procrastinating takes some effort. - Neil Fiore. The Now Habit.

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@DivineOps @dinoman_j

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@DivineOps Humans are NOT lazy

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@DivineOps You are probably scared

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@DivineOps What exactly are we scared of?

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@DivineOps @dinoman_j

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@DivineOps Fixed Mindset ”…effort is a bad thing. It, like failure, means you’re not smart or talented. If you were, you wouldn’t need effort.” - Carol Dweck. Mindset.

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@DivineOps Are people with fixed mindset doomed?

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@DivineOps People with fixed mindset can still succeed at accomplishing hard things

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@DivineOps Adopting a growth mindset will make you a happier human

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@DivineOps Sidenote

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@DivineOps What about talent?

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@DivineOps Talent only carries you so far

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@DivineOps 10,000hour rule

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@DivineOps ”Deliberate practice involves feedback and modification of efforts in response to that feedback. - Anders Ericsson

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@DivineOps Kind vs Wicked learning environments Presence or absence of immediate and accurate feedback Robin M. Hogarth

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@DivineOps Talent is overrated!

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@DivineOps Believing you are forever defined by your inborn abilities is so sad

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@DivineOps Adopting a growth mindset will make you a happier human

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@DivineOps End Sidenote

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@DivineOps Chapter 2: Work

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@DivineOps CEO Disease The negative feedback vacuum

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@DivineOps Fixed Mindset Must continuously get confirmation of your greatness

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@DivineOps You cannot ignore reality forever

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@DivineOps “Be passionate and bold. Always keep learning. You stop doing useful things if you don’t learn.” - Satya Nadella

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@DivineOps “In this era of becoming, everyone becomes a newbie. Worse, we will be newbies forever.” - Kevin Kelly

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@DivineOps We must learn every day

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@DivineOps Our businesses must learn every day

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@DivineOps “Smart people don’t learn… because they have too much invested in proving what they know and avoiding being seen as not knowing.” - Chris Argyris

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@DivineOps Learning requires vulnerability

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@DivineOps Fixed mindset gives you no tools to cope with failure

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@DivineOps In growth mindset Failure doesn’t define you

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@DivineOps In growth mindset Failure is an opportunity to improve

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@DivineOps ”Why waste time proving over and over how great you are, when you could be getting better?” - Carol Dweck. Mindset.

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@DivineOps It’s not about proving yourself It is about improving yourself

  • Sasha Rosenbaum

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@DivineOps Adopting a growth mindset will make you a happier human

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@DivineOps

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@DivineOps Are we all good now?

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@DivineOps Like every journey, it takes time

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@DivineOps Adopting a growth mindset will make you a happier human

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@DivineOps Bonus Chapter: Personality

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@DivineOps Fixed mindset makes you feel judged

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@DivineOps You can always change basic things about the kind of person you are

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@DivineOps Adopting a growth mindset will make you a happier human

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@DivineOps Thank you! @DivineOps