Adopting an Owner's Mentality in Your Own Life

Beyond Your Default

If you've spent any time in entrepreneurial or startup culture circles, the concept of "adopting an owner's mentality" is likely not new to you. Plenty of founders and C-suite folks in those spaces often will talk to their employees about the importance of approaching their work with an owner's mindset.

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In some cases, it's a good thing, as it can help employees contextualize their actions in a way that helps everyone move forward, instead of thinking of themselves as autonomous contributors. In other cases, it's a more toxic way to set the conditions for folks to overwork themselves, in the name of "thinking like an owner."

What's interesting, however, is that this idea of "owner's mindset" is completely absent from discussions about our personal lives. Sure, there's plenty of conversation around avoiding a "victim mentality," but what does it mean to adopt an owner's mentality — the proactive, positive flip side of that coin — in one's own life?

And, in doing so, what opportunities, resources, and possibilities can suddenly become available to us? This is exactly what George and I explore in this episode. Because living a life beyond your own current default state only becomes possible when you are willing to take the steering wheel of your own life.

Questions We Discuss

• What does it mean to adopt an owner’s mentality in ones own personal life?
• Why do we think this idea is so prevalent in the professional spaces but not personal?
• What are catalyst moments in our lives where we challenged ourselves to adopt an owner's mentality?
• What does having an owner’s mentality in one’s own life look like in practice?
• What is the difference between owning, renting, and borrowing in our lives?
• How can someone determine if this is an area where they need a little extra TLC?