Mindset is everything!

The problem is that few of us ever pause to consider how our mindsets influence our lives, what mindsets we have, where we got them, or even what mindsets we want to develop. 

Let me ask you another few questions: Do you know what your dominant Mindset is? Do you know where you got it from? What Mindset would you LIKE to have dominate your view of the world? Most of us don’t realize that we can purposefully select and shape our mindsets.

As a way of expanding on this point and explaining how mindsets work, let me share a current and very relevant analogy. As we’ve discussed in detail earlier in the book, the entire field of artificial intelligence has been in hyper-rapid growth for the past decade. As it turns out, one branch of AI, called Neural Networks, has been designed based on the way our brain works. Today AI scientists train a neural net in the same way that we would train a dog, a child, or even ourselves. These neural nets are trained by being shown example after example, over and over again. For instance, if you want to train a neural net to recognize a cat, AI scientists would typically show the net thousands of pictures of various cats. In doing so, the net would learn to recognize that cats have ears, fur, a tail, and four legs. But if you then show the same neural net a picture of a dog, the algorithm will tell you that the dog is a cat.

It doesn’t know any better. It’s only been trained to see cats! The same is true for our brains: the conclusions we draw and the actions we take are only as good as the data we’ve used to shape our minds. Most of us don’t realize that we are CONSTANTLY training our mindsets through the media we consume, the friends we hang out with, and the books we read. For example, if you watch CNN, what Peter calls the “Crisis News Network,” every day for hours on end, you’ll be put on RED ALERT.

Today’s network news bombards us with 10-to-1 negative to positive news stories that make us feel pessimistic and fearful and put us into a scarcity mindset. But it doesn’t need to be that way. As an exponential entrepreneur, you can instead choose to have an “Abundance Mindset” powered by the unprecedented period of exponential change before us.

Peter’s mission with his mindset-related work is to help teach entrepreneurs about six key Mindsets that he believes EVERY entrepreneur and leader should at least be familiar with—and, ideally, master—if they hope to surf atop this tsunami of change rather than get crushed by it.