I started the book “Stretch” by Scott Sonenshein this week, and I found the first chapter quite relevant to me — The Chasing Mindset.
Scott highlighted that the psychological foundations of chasing mindset mainly come from one of the 4 factors:
- Social Comparisons — drive us constantly to want what others have and underappreciate the value of what we already have
- Functional Fixedness — a fixated perspective that prevents us from viewing existing resources as capable of more
- Mindless Accumulation — to rack up as many…