The Beginner’s Mindset Expertise is supposed to make us

Expertise is supposed to make us better — until the moment it doesn't. In this episode, Julie explores beginner's mind: what it actually is, why it's not the same thing as knowing less, and why holding what you know a little more lightly might be one of the biggest advantages you can bring to work, relationships, and change.

WHAT WE COVER

Why expertise can backfire — the Einstellung effect and how experience narrows what we're able to see

The real difference between beginner's mind and growth mindset

Cognitive flexibility and intellectual humility — what the research says about staying open

How calcified expertise shows up at work — and what a true beginner would notice that you've stopped seeing

Why becoming an “expert” on the people closest to you can be a trap

Beginner's mind as an antidote to the fear of the unfamiliar

Five self-coaching questions to find where certainty might be costing you more than not-knowing would

REFLECTION QUESTIONS

Where in your work have you stopped asking questions because you're “supposed” to already know the answer?

Think of someone close to you — what's one assumption about them you haven't actually checked lately?