How does Mindset work?
Mindset is the certain thing that changes everything about you. It’s a complicated interplay of many things, including beliefs, values, identity, frames of reference, physical and emotional aspects, and the rules you hold in your life.
Fixed vs Growth Mindset
Since 1987, the 100m sprinter world record has never stood for more than three years and three months until Jamaican legend Usain Bolt set the current world record in August 2009—almost 13 years ago. People for 13 years thought that this record couldn’t be changed, but Usain Bolt didn’t limit his goal by thinking, “No one has succeeded in this, so I can’t.” He tried to break that fixed mindset and built a new record.
Friedrich Nietzsche says, “To those human beings who are of any concern to me I wish suffering, desolation, sickness, ill-treatment, indignities – I wish that they should not remain unfamiliar with profound self-contempt. The torture of self-mistrust, the wretchedness of the vanquished: I do not pity them because I wish them the only thing that can prove today whether one is worth anything or not – that one endures.”
Life was never easy. Life will be 100 times harder, throwing suffering, hardships, agony, and problems toward you. The only thing that’s going to help you go through is mindset. The mindset that you’re going to persevere, you’re going to push through, you’re going to be capable of seeing things to the end.
Your mindset is one of the important features of your perspective. I had tough times in my life: a toxic family environment and a lot of miseries, and I suffered a lot due to the sick mentality of my family. They always hurt me and broke me apart; I couldn’t muster the courage to try different activities, or make friends, and I got depressed a lot. I felt I was not good enough, not good-looking. I started to get over those beliefs slowly when I finally convinced myself and made myself believe that the universe is working with me, not against me. I have been prepared strongly for a bigger goal in my life, becoming resilient for my future battles. The one thing in favor of us is how we respond to situations.
Mindset is the subset of belief about what you’re capable of and what the world is. It affects the outcome. The only belief that matters is that you can learn, improve, fail, and again learn and improve. Once you believe that, everything gets unlocked. Mindset is going to allow you to flip things from negative to positive.
Either you allow a limited mindset to get you, or you choose a growth mindset to improve your life for the better.
