What is a growth mindset?
A growth mindset is the belief that you are not confined by the limitations of your skills, traits, or talents fixed at birth. It allows you to think that your potential is limitless and that you can become skillful and talented through learning and continuous improvement. As Henry Ford said, “Whether you think you can or you can’t, you’re right.”
What happens when you believe in a fixed mindset?
You give up easily. You never push yourself, thinking that your abilities are limited, and you settle for less. When you have a growth mindset, you start to use “yet” after the sentences you have achieved so far. Your abilities and IQ are limitless and expandable, capable of improvement, as Carol Dweck, author of the book “Mindset,” explains.
Everyone gets stuck at some point in life and faces failure. Whether I’m Bill Gates, Den Penna, or Barack Obama, I can always get better. The only belief that matters is that once you think you can get good at anything and you work towards it, giving an immense amount of effort to it.
The Required Beliefs to Build a Growth Mindset:
- Set your value system to the fact that will continuously challenge you and demand that you leave your comfort zone. Make changes in those areas which will protect and boost your self-esteem.
- Take ownership of your life. Don’t make excuses; figure out how you can make changes that will impact the situation.
- Don’t think you’re not talented enough or that you’re gifted with talent. Thinking of yourself as roughly average will help you best serve your goals and give you a different perspective because if you are average, you can work on yourself and get better.
- Adaptability to changes, to new things, is important. Accept that you will not succeed at first, you will make mistakes, tell yourself it’s fine, then learn from your mistakes, grow, and try again.
- Your IQ, brain, is not fixed; your brain plasticity can improve, as science has proven.
- You cannot understand something without execution. You have to take action and learn from the results. Don’t hesitate to take action; don’t be late in taking action. Some of your questions will be answered by your actions.
- Leave your comfort zone. Try the hardest things, push beyond your limits, see that your bound is limitless. Try things that you fear, like starting a business or asking for something from someone.
- Your beliefs are not formed by accident; stop thinking that. It’s actually your choice. Your perspective, mindset, is changeable towards anything.
- Believe in solutions. Be optimistic that there’s nothing without a solution. Someone has done it, or you’re going to figure it out. There’s always a way out.
- Use the word “yet” in everything. Open the possibilities of the future so that your life can move out of the darkness of pessimism.
- You’re not supposed to learn at the first place. When you are in the position of not knowing something, then your reaction should be to learn and move forward or be cowardly and stay unlearned.
- Acknowledge yourself. You don’t need praise from someone else. If you are making progress, pat yourself on the back because you deserve it.
- Choose your internet surroundings carefully because you are affected by the Facebook accounts you follow, the YouTube channels you watch, and the type of reels you see most of your time. Their beliefs, attitudes, actions, and energy will affect you and have an effect on your growth and overall personality.
Answer these Questions:
- What fixed mindset do you currently have that you think has been holding back your growth all these years?
- What are some fixed mindset things that have happened to you, bother you the most, and trigger your old fixed mindset?
- List the YouTube channels and social media content types you spend every day on. Are they benefiting you?
- If not, then who are your ideal gurus that you should follow and set your environment around them?
- Praise yourself for 10 good tasks you accomplished and changes you made, and list 3 punishments for your laziness or not taking responsibility for an important task.
