🔗 Carol Dweck, Remarkable People podcast, episode 194

Social media forces you to compare yourself to others, forces you to seek as many likes as possible. Whatever you put out there, you’re on the line. Is anyone going to like it? How many people are going to like it? So those kinds of experiences, even if we’re mostly in a growth mindset a lot of the time, can trigger us into a fixed mindset, and we kind of have to find our way back.

A fixed mindset is not as enjoyable because you’re easily threatened, and you have to keep competing and beating everybody else as opposed to enjoying your own progress and learning.