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31 thoughts3/17/2023 ![]() If this basic requirement is not met, it will probably not be possible for them to experience an elevated state of wellbeing through the growth mindset. It is true that the environment must support the culture of the growth mindset, but the employee must first be fitting of their role and enjoying the work they do. The growth mindset is about understanding that our talents, intelligence, and potential are not fixed, and that we can be better by learning and progressing through setbacks and failures. I feel this is a choice they have made, and we are not in a position to pass judgement. Some might call these the “smart” ones or maybe the “survivor slackers”. The third are employees who are in the workforce to be a quiet quitter from the start. The second are employees who have been pushed by an unsupportive work environment through colleagues or managers to not want to put in more effort than required for their roles at work. The first are employees who had spent time working from home since the pandemic, and since then have realised that there were so many other things that were more important in life than work, so they adopted the quiet quitting mode of operations. He said that there are three instances or archetypes of “quiet quitters”. I found a good description of “quiet quitters” through Reggie’s monologue on an episode of The Financial Coconut podcast. As an ex-educator from the ministry, I would classify these individuals who are content with the D-grade because that’s cruise mode and this mode will also will not get them fired. The definition we are familiar with of “quiet quitters” is that they are employees who do the bare minimum to get by and do not bother to go over and above their call of duty. ![]() My answer was, “Yes, but is the environment supporting the growth mindset culture?”. The gentleman John asked, “Will teaching the growth mindset be the solution to solving the current workforce talent unproductivity with the quiet quitting mindset?”. I never really had to address this topic of “quiet quitting” until a question was asked at the end of one of my Uncovering Your Growth Mindset workshops.
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