Our core belief is that people are fundamentally motivated, capable, and driven to experience fulfillment through growth and learning. Our mission is to provide proven psychological tools that will unlock your potential, and build resilience in the face of adversity and challenge. 

 

Although we can't always control the external events that happen, we can increase the chances of improving our own life outcomes by cultivating personal strategies that develop greater resilience against the challenges and difficulties that may come our way.

 

 

Drawing on decades of research from the domains of psychology, behavioral economics, the purpose of Adaptive Mindsets is to provide access to the set of tools that can empower any individual or organization to experience more adaptive outcomes through the adoption of effective mindsets.

 

Unfortunately, there is a massive amount of personal development advice that is unfounded, and thus may lead to ineffective or even damaging outcomes. Because we understand that it can be difficult to filter through all that information, our mission is to provide scientifically based recommendations that promise to lead to greater outcomes. 

 

"My reason for creating Adaptive Mindsets is to give back. I recognize that I have benefited from the institution of privilege. Those advantages and opportunities will afford me and my kids a greater chance at all the best markers of happiness and success.  As such, it is now my purpose to give back those tools that helped me navigate beyond the factors that I had inherited, as a first-gen, single-parent household, who witnessed physical abuse, low-income migrant family. Although I was able to escape the structural limitations, the thing that has impacted me the most is the way that I have been able to escape the psychological pitfalls that come with my profile. Those strategies that have taken me decades to identify, experiment, refine, and internalize have had the greatest impact on my life, and it is now my duty to share those with others who may find some use from the strategies and insights that psych can provide to liberate and empower us, no matter what we're facing. Thus, our goal with this site and company is to identify those same tools and translate them into actionable and easy to use strategies that anyone can use. " 

- Omid Fotuhi, PhD

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We are driven to translate critical insights from proven psychological research into tangible, relevant, and applicable strategies to free individuals and organizations to achieve their potential. 

 

Through personal insight, we are committed to working with you to strive towards more growth.

 

Our work and research is driven by the purpose of uncovering common psychological barriers 

Creating Tailored, Targeted, and Well-Timed Interventions

 

Our lab is focused on identifying psychological barriers that impede performance and well-being, and leveraging those insights to create theory-driven interventions that target those barriers. Importantly, our approach is to create interventions that will have the greatest potential impact by (1) tailoring the intervention, (2) targeting the population in greatest need, and (3) timing the intervention to be delivered in moments when people are most receptive or most in need of the intervention.

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The primary thing that sets the Adaptive Mindsets work apart from other training programs (e.g., Habits of Mind, SEL, Non-Cog, ...) is that our approach doesn't focus on tactics. Rather, it targets attributions. So, rather than it being a behaviorally driven approach, it's an insights-driven approach. Which is to say that we suggest there is a promise to create and sustaining greater impact by changing subjective construals (or the meaning) that people make related to difficulties and challenges, rather than the tactical or behavioral responses when they do confront those challenges. 

 

The problem is that many of the programs have similar names/terms to describe them. But the focus on the root mechanism from my work is fundamentally distinct from others' efforts in the field.  [How Attributions Shape Behavior]

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We change lenses through which people see their worlds, we don't prescribe behaviors with which to confront their challenges. Many of those challenges may be driven more from the stance that they take than it does their circumstances.

Wayne Dyer once said, "Change The Way You Look At Things And The Things You Look At Change”. Well, what we try to do is not just tell people to change the way they see the world. But just like you can't will someone to correct their vision, we offer different lenses with which people can correct their views.