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You're grieving the latest round of loved ones who passed away, a close family member and a dear family friend, both with caring and happy personalities, and both Positive Masters. You're putting out fires fueled by personality clashes in a non-profit organization you're leading that's suppose to promote inner peace. Phone calls and emails get thrown at you from your business partners and vendors, telling you everything that's going wrong. Payments aren't coming in from your clients while your attorney defending you for your driving under the influence case is needing his payment. Oh, and for that driving under influence case, the court threw the book at you for not being a good role model as a politician so you're facing five days...

Master 7, our mascot and leader of the Positive Masters is the master of positive mindset. Specifically, let's go over growth mindset versus fixed mindset, made famous by psychologist and author Carol S. Dweck, Ph.D., who wrote "Mindset The New Psychology of Success," which you can find at bookstores and Amazon here: https://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Carol-S-Dweck/dp/0345472322 . Dr. Dweck is one of the world’s leading researchers in the field of motivation and is the Lewis and Virginia Eaton Professor of Psychology at Stanford University. She has held professorships at Columbia and Harvard Universities, has lectured all over the world, and has been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. So what is the difference between the two mindsets? People with a growth mindset, achieve expertise...