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What do we mean by “mindset?”

We started the book with an assertion: How you think about the world changes what you do, and how you do it.

That is a mindset. And the promise that idea makes is this: Change your mindset and you can change your possibilities. Anyone who's played sports will agree that mindset is everything.

What specifically does a changed mindset change in your real work or life? For a start, it changes what you pay attention to, and what you think is worth your time.

In a complex, fast‐moving environment like construction, you have to pick out what matters from a sea of events, meetings, and messages. You can't figure out what matters if you don't have an idea about how the world works – a model of what causes what, and what is important in the end.

Construction has always had a huge toolkit, from MIG welders to hand tools to heavy machinery, and everything in between. Most of those tools are based on processes that have evolved slowly and, as discussed above, are based on observable effects. To make those processes successful, the construction mindset has been one of relying on past experience, trusting your gut, and a constant anxiety about what might go wrong that you cannot see. This mindset is why superintendents, in fact why almost everyone, is constantly inspecting the jobsite – they are looking directly at everything, only trusting their own eyes.

The mindset and mental models that made one good at construction traditionally are not the same as the mindset that will make you a master of both the trade you already know, and the digital tools that you use now and will be able to use in the future. There is no reason you cannot use both mindsets, because they are not really in conflict.

The digital construction mindset separates the physical from the digital, understanding that each supports and requires the other to function. Understand that some problems are for the gut, and some are for the analytics. These two higher‐level toolkits are critical, and they also overlap.