“Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it”. – Steve Maraboli (a Behavioral Scientist specializing in Motivational Psychology, Leadership Dynamics, and the Peak Performance Mindset)
How many of us have heard of something similar to this before? Yes, that’s right! When your thoughts are healthy and constructive, everything will fall in place. Let’s admit it, more than anything else, our mindset is everything! Whether you’re talking about excelling in the upcoming examination or learning to play guitar during the holiday season, it all comes down to mindset. The right mindset can make the difference between success and failure. The way in which we look at ourselves is key to developing a growth mentality. In fact, studies reveal that a growth mindset is an essential ingredient for career success.
What exactly is “Growth mindset”?
It is important that we understand what “Fixed mindset” is before we learn about the “Growth Mindset”. A person with a fixed mindset assumes that his character, intelligence and creative abilities are all static. Such a person would confine himself within a closed boundary and not be willing to learn new things in life.
A “Growth Mindset” is based on the fact that growth is a continuous process. A person with a growth mindset tends to believe that there is always room for improvement through experience and practice. Such a person considers failure not as a stumbling block, but as a form of learning. He sees success and failure both as a means to learn new things in life and become a better version of himself.
How to develop a growth mindset?
Now, since you know the positive impacts that “growth mindset” can have on your lives, it is important that you learn how to develop it.
Embrace Failure
The first step towards developing a growth mindset is changing the way we look at failure. We should take it as a positive occurrence rather than a negative one. We need to understand that each and every human being in this world faces setbacks in life. But the manner in which we respond to failures becomes the differentiating factor. There’s a huge difference between “Well, yeah I lost. So, what? I’ll come back strongly!” and “Oh! that hurts. I’m broken.” The second attitude won’t take you anywhere but the first one will surely push an individual to achieve bigger things in life.
“Learning is a lifelong process”
If you desire to develop a growth mindset, you should be ready to learn new things each and every day. The moment you feel that you know everything, the room for growth narrows down, and may eventually become non-existent. You will feel self-sufficient and the urge to learn new things subsides. If you take a look at the top CEOs in the world, you will come to know that most of them read more than 10-15 books every year. It is their willingness to keep learning that helps them overcome the obstacles at the workplace and achieve greater results.
Escape the “comfort” zone
The moment you define your limits, the scope for growth reduces. You need to understand that if you want to have big achievements in life, you need to perform better than what you did previously. In order to do so, you need to try out new things in life which might be entirely new to you. Only when you are ready to push yourself, will you be able to surpass your own expectations.
Welcome Feedback
People who wish to grow personally and professionally welcome feedback. They tend to ask for and value feedback. When you desire to have greater achievements, it is important that you are not afraid of criticism or any sort of judgment. Take each and every feedback as inputs to further build your character, widen your knowledge and multiply your creative abilities.
With how fast the world is evolving, it is important that we have a growth mindset. We have to continuously learn new skills and develop new talents to remain competitive in this cut-throat world. Experts suggest that a positive and growing mindset predicts achievement. “It is not how good you are but how good you want to be that matters”. So, let’s all start changing our mindsets – Growth, here we come! 🙂
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