I’ve been practicing a version of this for years. I describe it as being on the lookout for stories you tell yourself about yourself - things like ‘I can’t draw

I’ve been practicing a version of this for years. I describe it as being on the lookout for stories you tell yourself about yourself - things like ‘I can’t draw’ and ‘kids don’t like me’ and ‘I’m bad with money.’ As this article points out, phrasing those statements in the present tense, as though they were immutable absolutes that must persist into the future, is a static mindset. It takes only a small shift - ‘up to now I haven’t been able to draw but I’m going to learn’ - to re-frame your idea of yourself as dynamic and malleable. This opens the door to actively shaping your future self, and it’s hard to overstate how different that is from a static perspective.