No this is an idea that I want to share with you.
And it's just an idea.
It's not like there's gonna be actionable steps you can take from this and you can go and put some things
into into practice or or change anything major about your life.
This idea is more about the attitude that we take towards our endeavors towards the pursuit of money
materialism things and we're all committed to building something in life aren't we.
You know we're going to be committed to building a family or building a business or building a future
for ourselves.
You're taking this course for a reason most likely because you want to build something.
All right.
Even if you're not clear on what this something is.
So what I want to share with you here are two different types of mindset that we can take towards growth.
All right growth progress advancement.
We're going to have the growth mindset.
We're going to have a fixed mindset.
No the growth mindset and operates out of this premise that failure gives us an opportunity to grow
hard those give us an opportunity to jump on a per game I can learn to do anything that I want here
I'm only ever one strategy away from an outcome my efforts and my attitude determine my abilities my
ability is never in question is just my willingness to commit to learning something new.
I like to try new things.
Feedback is constructive feedback is not a bad thing it's a positive thing.
If people are giving me feedback then I can use this and I can build upon it to become more valuable
to become better.
To enhance my offerings or my services the fixed mindset is different.
Failure is the limit of my abilities.
I've failed in the past.
I didn't get the outcome that I wanted.
Therefore I'm never going to get this outcome.
I am stuck.
I am fixed.
There is no moving beyond this.
I'm either good at something or I am not good at something do you see the difference here.
My potential is predetermined.
All right.
And what I'm capable of accomplishing in life isn't determined by me is determined by some other power
or society limits me in some way or I can link this idea back to the internal locus of control an external
locus of control that is shared a few sections.
I to know some people in life like to stick to what they know.
Why.
Because it's safe because it's comfortable because it's easy.
No one of these mindsets fits in and allows us to progress through the four stages of life that I talked
about in our last video.
And one mindset one Arthur Chu it's just will keep us fixed and stuck in a rut going nowhere for the
rest of our lives pointing a finger and blaming absolutely everyone else or anything else or society
or the world or the economy or politicians or religion.
As to why we are not moving forward in life.
So here what I want to do I want to share with you three different mindsets and this was an idea that
I had presented to me probably around by maybe 12 years ago and even back then I didn't fully appreciate
it.
All right so it may be the case you don't fully appreciate what I'm sharing here but just let this one
sink in.
All right.
This is one of these ideas you just want to incubate for a while.
All right talking about three different attitudes that we can take towards life growth and building
futures for ourselves or building businesses.
OK.
The three different issues we can take.
The first one being the Egyptian slave mindset.
Now this was based upon a story that I heard and probably about 10 years ago.
This was actually one of these biblical stories Believe it or not it was a story about the nation of
Israel being held as slaves in captivity in Egypt.
All right.
No other story went and my watch the movie a few years ago called The Exodus.
I think it was Christian Bale who was in this movie and I was kind of reminded of the principle now
as the story went this nation of people who'd been held in captivity in slavery for all these years
had become comfortable as slaves.
All right.
So as the story went God had spoken to.
I think it was Moses to lead his people this nation of Israel out of Egypt into the Promised Land The
Promised Land was and was a legacy it was golden years it was this land of abundance and more than enough
and all this kind of stuff.
But the nation of Israel wouldn't budge.
In the end what happened was I think God sent all these different plagues.
I can't remember what they all wear items like locusts and you made the Rivers Run Red ones.
There was some flies or something like that and then I think the final or the last of the plagues was
he sent the angel of death a cross and killed all the first born sons of all the Egyptians.
No I don't know how true this story is but you can take a few a few life lessons from this and one of
them as well.
In truth the story as the story went and there wasn't the nation of Israel in the end who freely got
up and left walked over to slavery in the end it was actually the fair or the king at the time who was
so sick and tired of all of these plagues being cast upon his nation.
He ended up chasten Israel out all right including Moses right get out of my country I'm sick of all
these plagues get out and take God with you.
I've had enough.
Now here's the idea.
All right.
Those people had become comfortable as slaves.
They were given accommodation.
They were given salaries that were given food water just enough to be able to get by on a day to day
basis.
All right.
They didn't actually want any more than what was being given to them in exchange for their freedom.
No.
Look at people who work and operate in your local grocery store.
Think about people in your nation or your land who operate for and work and devote the best of their
time in exchange for minimum wage.
NO WE'RE NOT GONNA DO HERE.
WE'RE NOT GONNA dumb anyone down.
We're not gonna see that people are unwise or the people are being foolish.
We're talking about the mindsets and the belief systems that people operate out of.
Here's the thing.
How would you ever know that you're a slave.
If you were born into slavery right because slavery then just becomes normal for you.
You're only ever going to know that you're in slavery or that you're a slave.
If you can see what freedom is if you can see what liberation looks like.
What I'm saying here is that the greatest prisons in the world aren't always those constructed in Belo
of breeze blocks and concrete and reinforced steel.
Sometimes the greatest prisons that keep people enslaved in life are actually just the prisons of their
own thinking.
The mindsets of the Opry out off all right.
So this mindset here keeping people in a place a flag and a place is not enough.
All right but it's just a mindset so people here would live for food for water to pay the bills and
just get by.
Then hides this Babylonian mindset.
No this was I'm not sure if this was biblical or not.
This is back to the.
So you know how you've got empires through history.
The most recent empires on the demise is on the crash and burn right now is a British Empire.
For all those years the British Empire advanced through the modern world and dominated nations and expanded
the Commonwealth and all that kind of stuff.
And today Britain has pretty much fallen apart.
You've got Britain separating from Europe and Scotland.
What in the prairie.
Separate from.
From Britain and all the rest of it.
Here's the thing.
When empires are growing.
Kings and Queens are strong and people generally draw the confidence from this.
So the Babylonian Empire was belts and when this culture of people were coming from a place of real
genuine strength.
All right so they were operating from a place of not not enough.
They were operating from this place of absolute abundance.
And this is what they were born into.
And this is what they expected more off.
They just assumed that they would always have what they always had.
This law here the Egyptians they have never expected any more than that.
That it's always hard.
I didn't want any more because they were comfortable.
This lot here were comfortable in what they had in the same way as this law.
Here were comfortable in what they had this law.
Here we're comfortable with little this law here we're comfortable with much so whether they are let's
or whether he had much didn't really make too much of a difference in terms of the fixed mindset that
they were operating out off the Babylonians was all about bold build thrive thrive we must have more
we must get more.
Enough is never enough enough never enough.
And then eventually the kingdom had a Babylonian way of life crumbled completely in the same way as
today the and the British Empire has kind of risen and fallen before then it was the Roman Empire that
Risen it fell within the Grecian empire before that that rose and fell before then it was a Babylonian
Empire that rose and fell.
Again it's just a way of thinking.
All right.
It depends on why we're doing what we're doing in life.
We can be operated for a place if not enough.
Just content with what we have.
Not one to rock the boat or step outside the comfort zone or we can be operating from a place of this
really matter how much we have enough is never gonna be enough.
Therefore we're always striving for more and for both these mindsets demonstrate is a complete slave
mentality does it matter whether we have little or whether we have much.
We're still not content either way.
So what's the alternative.
I hear you ask what's the growth mindset.
Well the growth mindset is this kingdom mindset.
All right and this kingdom mindset provokes us to ask different types of questions.
What am I actually here to accomplish.
What am I actually here to leave behind.
What impact do I want to make.
I'm here just to kind of have a comfortable life.
I'm here just to feel happy just to get enough to pay the bills and I'm here.
Do I want to be the next 50 billion dollar man.
When will enough ever be enough.
Or here we're asking the question How can I use what resources I have in my hands today to leave behind
a legacy today.
How can I use what I have on my hands.
How can I use my skills.
How can I use my knowledge.
How can I use my insights.
How can I use my resources how can I use my finances to make a positive impact and fundamentally make
a difference in the lives of other people.
All right.
Can the mindset to give you an example of this today something I've worked with many life coaches in
many practitioners over the years and the is vision that many new life coaches have is right.
I want to know go and find me some clients I want to go build a business in and get some clients.
And this is okay.
There's nothing wrong with that but for some people the vision may just be a little bit too small because
you can work with clients.
One person at a time if you can find all those clients from somewhere or if you have good marketing
skills or something like that but you know a lot of these principles that we've talked about throughout
the course are universal by nature all right.
Every single person in the world could really benefit from understanding this stuff so we can take these
ideas and we can teach them in education through the various institutions throughout society that make
the world system we can take them into education we can take them into politics we can take them into
religion we can take them into the family home we can take them into the arts we can take them into
media we can take them into sports and entertainment.
Why not.
Because that's where most people live their lives all right.
That's where most people exist.
So the mindset is looking just beyond where we're currently at today is kind of looking at where the
world's going right where our future might be headed and how it is that we can share what we have today
with other people in a creative way that is potentially going to make some degree of impact or potentially
leave behind a meaningful legacy for us in the future.
All right so three different mindsets now consider where you're currently out today and where you've
come from.
Have you operated in this place of a slave mentality slave mindset for many years.
I was a wage slave you know a worked in exchange for money I would sell my time for money but the problem
with this mindset and its attitude towards life is that the most viable commodity that we have is over
time.
All right so if we're selling our time and giving our time away for peanuts.
Well that's okay but we're never gonna get that back in or would you really continue to do a dead end
job that you hate.
If you were to find out that you're not gonna be here in a week's time that would most likely shift
your perspective.
So it's important that we just play around with these ideas and just ask ourselves slightly more meaningful
questions that life would I keep on doing what I'm doing today.
If this was my last week here on planet Earth or my last month.
And if I was going to commit to leaving behind some sort of legacy what would this look like.
How can I use what's in my hand right now to actually make a positive difference to give something back.
Because only when we commit to making this level of difference in life that we start to experience know
fulfillment contentment which you're very rarely going to experience when you're just working for money
or when you're working for more work into just how an enough or your work into you know pretty much
get everything.
It's just a few different ways of looking at life.
So again there's no real major take away from this.
And there's principles just concepts what you do with these principles.
I'm going to suggest is just relate them to your own life and then adapt and adjust as appropriate.
So you found this idea helpful.
When I'll see you again in the next clip.