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For all the coaches I have studied, the very concept of “mindset” and idea that we should develop a specific “mindset” were extremely important to the point that they provided the overarching goal of their training; for Joeel and Natalie Rivera, for instance, “all success is attributable to mindset” and the right mindset, according to them, is called the “growth mindset” that allows for adaptability, change, and improvement over time (Joeel and Natalie Rivera, nd). This is contradicted by the “fixed mindset” which implies stagnation and inaction, or, in other accounts, with the “victim mindset”. Ramsey regards the victim mindset catastrophic as, “for powerful people, the victim mindset is nothing more than an unnecessary chain holding them back from living exciting and rewarding lives” and this victim mindset is “detrimental to your growth and self-mastery” and not productive; it is a fetter that prevents us from growing (2020: 48).\n\nThe right mindsets should be accompanied by specific traits. In contrast to the tendency for self-destructiveness found in the fixed or victim mindsets, some of the staple attributes of the right mindset are confidence, empowerment, and resilience for achieving one’s vision. Confidence refers to the ability to believe in yourself, which is ultimately the indicator of success; as Joeel and Natalie Rivera put it, “whether or not a person will succeed depends on the level of confidence” rather than, say, inherited financial status, educational background, or social capital (Joeel and Natalie Rivera, nd). The confidence imperative is widely distributed not only in the life-coach discourse but is key in the neoliberal apparatus at large in which market competition is impressed upon all dimensions of social life (Wilson, 2017). The prevailing “confidence cult(ure)” is an integral part of the therapeutic narrative that imposes an “obligated freedom”, as Organ and Gill argue, “in which not achieving the required change is framed as moral and psychological failure” (2022: 6). In other words, it is impossible to be “free” unless you do all this labor of unearthing and orient the “work with yourself” toward self-transformation. The confidence imperative, however, especially when targeting female audiences, does not set a transcendental “perfection” as its standard but admits (and comes to terms with) the messiness of life, its weaknesses, and negativities. Confidence is thus accompanied by a “vulnerability turn” (2022: 6), according to which people should love themselves, embrace their past mistakes, and turn harmful psychological traits into assets. Castillo, for instance, in her podcast episode Embrace Your Negative Parts tells us: “Think of all the things in your past that you wish you hadn’t done, and take a deep breath and say, ‘Oh, I’m human. This is part of my human experience’ [… .] And human beings do things that cause problems for other people, and human beings do things that ‘hurt’ other people. And it’s okay. It’s okay. You’re okay” (Castillo, 2022e). Be willing to embrace your weaknesses, then, even the ones that can lead to harming oneself or others comes from a position of acceptance rather than pathology. In this sense, the vulnerability turn inhabits the same neoliberal version of individual empowerment as it addresses traumas as opportunities for self-improvement (instead of, say, searching for their social causes and collectively struggling to confront these causes).12\n\nCurating Mindsets, Micro-Celebrities, and Intimacies\n\n143","previous_page":null,"next_page":144}