Howdy friend! Have you heard about the growth mindset?
“You are a natural on stage. What a great talk you delivered!”
“Made me embrace my inner fixed mindset, 10/10 would recommend!”
How much can we grow?
It depends on how much you believe you can.
Does it have to be this way? No.
Most of us carry limiting beliefs that quietly cap what we think we are capable of, and the way we go about learning. We decide early that we are not a maths person, not creative, not the kind who speaks up. Then we live inside that decision.
Drawing on the research of Dr. Carol Dweck, this talk goes deep on growth mindset: the belief in our own capacity to grow. It is not a pep talk. It is a look at how beliefs shape what a person learns, how they handle failing, and whether they keep going.
What you walk away with.
How your beliefs shape what you become
The story you tell yourself about ability quietly sets the ceiling on it. We start by seeing it for what it is.
Your real capacity to grow
What the research actually says about how much any of us can change. It is more than most people assume.
How to learn so it sticks
Active recall and spacing, the unglamorous methods that work, and why rereading and nodding does not.
How to keep going when it gets hard
Failure stops being a verdict and becomes information. That shift is what keeps a person in the game.
Built for any room.
I have given versions of this on conference stages, inside companies, and in front of students who would rather be anywhere else. The bones stay the same. We shape the length and the examples to your audience, whether that is a school assembly, a team offsite, or a hall of a few hundred.
Jonas
Hulthén
KTH engineer. Co-founded Webnation. Speaks across the Nordics and Europe on growth mindset and building with AI.
Most recently on stage at Agile Testing Days Berlin and Nordic Testing Days Tallinn.
Bring this talk to your people.
Tell me about your audience and the date. I will tell you how I would shape it.