GYC 2016: When All Has Been Heard

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Generation. Youth. Christ. (GYC)

Living Free: Building a Better Brain, Body, and Habits – for Good!

Vicki Griffin

1. How Urgent is This Message?

2. God’s Peace Plan

4. Making Health Practical

5. Leaders Lighting The Way

3. Mindset Matters

Zeno Charles-Marcel

6. Principles of Health – A Call to Balance

This message was presented at the GYC 2016 conference, When All Has Been Heard, in Houston, Texas.

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So being created in God's image, what does the Lord tell us?

He invites us to use our reasoning faculties and too often we get into the mindset that when we give our hearts to God, He's just going to tell us what to do.

And that He's going to run us like robots.

And there are things that are not black and white that we have to think about, reason about.

And the Bible says iron is made better by iron, and man is actually made better by contact with his neighbor.

As we reason together, as brothers and sisters, as we reason with God and he reasons with us, he tests our reasoning faculties.

Are you thankful today for reasoning faculties?

And a healthy lifestyle sharpens reasoning faculties.

And in God's plan, even when we blunder, even when we make a mistake, we don't have to give up, we can get up.

So it's not about winning and losing, it's about winning and learning.

Because if you've learned something from what's happened to you, then have you gained strength and wisdom, if you can walk in a new path as a result.

Some of the richest lessons in life are from mistakes that we have made.

So today we are talking about mental habits.

Because about 50 to 60 percent of what we think is just automatic.

How many of you would like to have your thinking retooled?

Because you have monologues going on in your head that are defeating you.

You can feel something, but that doesn't make it true.

And we need to speak what we know instead of what we feel.

I'm not trying to diminish feelings but if they're at the helm, we're headed for a disaster.

It is in the news, your brain habits and attitudes can change for good.

That we're not just fated to be what we are.

He's a neuropsychiatrist from Harvard University.

He wrote an amazing little book called A User's Guide to the Brain.

And he said this, 1 necessary precursor to change, though, is often a change in what?

It's much more about attitude than aptitude when it comes to success in life.

We're not conditioned that way, we don't think that way, But that is the truth.

She wrote a book called Mindset, and in this book, she's a social scientist who wrote about the fixed versus the growth mindset.

Now we are told that true science and inspiration are in perfect harmony.

So in the word of God we find principles.

Have you seen as you've read the Word of God, principles of mental health.

And so as we look at these things, we may read some quotes from secular scientists, but those quotes are often in harmony with principles in the Word of God.

And so I will use them to support the truths of the Word of God.

And if they're not supported in the Word of God, you're not going to see them on the program.

She describes the individual, and some of this is genetic, some of it is environmental, we can be trained this way, raised this way.

The fixed mindset believes that traits such as intelligence, ability, personality, and competence are inborn and basically unchangeable.

Dweck found that if you have a fixed mindset, You believe that your qualities are carved in stone and cannot be changed.

You are born a certain way, you will stay that way forever.

What this does in the personality of this person with this mindset is it creates an urgency to prove your worth over and over again.

It makes it very difficult for such an individual to admit a mistake.

A fixed mindset is going to blame somebody.

As she gives amazing examples from the world of scholastics, big business, sports.

The fixed mindset believes that if you actually have to work at something, if you have to work at improving, it means you're actually basically lacking in intelligence and innate ability.

And she names a sports figure as an example of this.

How many of you have ever watched Wimbledon, the tennis matches at Wimbledon?

But in the days of Wimbledon, there was a tennis player that people who didn't even like tennis would watch just to watch this man throw temper tantrums.

And if he felt the call was wrong or if the sand wasn't right, if he missed a shot, he'd throw tantrums, he'd break his racket, somebody sneezed, they distracted him, the sand was wrong for his hand, the coach was wrong, And people just had parties watching this man lose control of himself on the tennis court.

Now the fixed results, The fixed mindset views themselves as either smart or dumb, strong or weak, competent or incompetent, winners or losers, successful or a failure.

Parents can unintentionally foster this type of mindset by telling their children that they're an Einstein just because they get an A on their little first grade math test.

Or they can call their child a Picasso because he smudges a sun on a piece of paper and now he's a natural artist or a natural genius.

And people can be born with these tendencies.

Children with a fixed mindset, toddlers with a fixed mindset will always choose easy puzzles because they constantly have to affirm to themselves that they're on top of it.

So it's not about learning, it's about proving competence.

She has a section in there and I don't have it on this program today, but there's a section on when fixed mindsets marry.

You know, the marriage is supposed to be made in heaven, Right?

But anybody who's married knows that marriage takes work.

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3. Mindset Matters