GROWTH MINDSET
Your Effort Makes
Extraordinary Results
Your mindset is the foundation of your attitude, how you think and act, and your response to the environment around you.
Isn’t mindset a fixed thing?
As children, we hear that we are talented in certain things and are intelligent when praised. We accepted them happily. It gave us confidence and a motivation boost. But it only lasted for a minute. We did not hear how to improve, so we only have learnt that the outcome is the most important. If we win, we will get praised. If we fail, we won’t.
It is a fixed mindset. An outcome. We waste all efforts if we fail, and there is no reason to get better because our intelligence and talent are something we got, not developed.
What if we can improve with practice - even if we only heard that we are bad at math, for example? What if effort and learning areare the key and intelligence is merely an advancement?
Mindset is changing with us even if we don’t realise it. We develop a fixed mindset. For example, if we avoid challenges because we fail sometimes and don’t want to improve. However, if we focus on learning and improving ourselves, we don’t care about failure because it is naturally part of the process.
“A growth mindset is a belief you can develop abilities.”
What is a fixed and growth mindset?
You are in control of your mindset, and you are forming it every day with your behaviour. The stories you tell yourself are either on your side or work against you.
A fixed mindset is not evil but can be in your way to achieve even more.
When you tell yourself that you are not good enough to start your own business or not good enough to be a C-suite leader, you limit yourself unconsciously.
In most cases, it sounds like a good excuse to avoid learning or practising something. For example, “I’m not a <any skill> person” or “It is hard for me to lose weight.“ - Does this sound familiar?
The fixed mindset helps you avoid failure in the short run but prevents you from long-term growth.
On the other hand, the growth mindset is about enabling yourself to try and fail with confidence and experience more success and joy.
Start building habits as small steps and focus on the process. Results will follow. Have short-term goals and a long-term vision.
Watch your triggers and use clever tricks, like the five seconds rule, when searching for excuses next time.
The growth mindset helps you accept and embrace failures and weaknesses and provide you with better resiliency.
“Effort is one of those things that gives meaning to life. Effort means you care about something, that something is important to you and you are willing to work for it.”
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