Although I have done an article on this mindset last year, a lot has changed since then. The growth mindset has become today’s leading edge in business and communications. “Individuals who believe their talents can be developed (through hard work, good strategies, and input from others) have a growth mindset. They tend to achieve more than those with a more fixed mindset (those who believe their talents are innate gifts). “According to Carol Dwek (Author of- Mindset: The new philosophy of success).
A growth mindset actually keeps you in the growth zone, therefore you ride every wave of change positively to your advantage. Learning continuously becomes your second nature and you stay ahead of most others. As the famous saying goes. There are three types of people. One who make things happen, one watch things happen and one who wonder what happened! People who have a hard-core growth mindset, continuously make things happen.
Once you evolve into a real growth mindset, you will need to practice it, like any other acquired skills to keep at optimum levels. Here are some simple steps you can take. Just jump into the deep end of the pool!
Ensure that you set self-learning goals
Yes, we all are busy living life, dealing with challenges and goals. Most often work life balance eludes us because we are busy and drained out. You need to ensure that you have set your short term and long-term learning goals, because evolving to a growth mindset is really all about relearning.
Chase challenges
Just don’t follow the paths you know and do things the way you have always done it. Try out what you have not done before. Get out of your comfort zone as a person and a professional. It is a different high when you chase challenges and overcome them. Its another way of learning through experience.
Take failures in your stride
Let not failures hold back your progress. Learning does not come from a magic wand but acquired knowledge when applied correctly creates its own glow of magic. Nothing is impossible. Failures are stepping stones to success. Which scientist ever got it right in their first attempt?
Practice positive self-talk
To do something right, you need to energise your entire mind and body and motivate yourself. The growth mindset really needs a lot of positivity and efforts from your side as evolving to this mindset is very difficult. The best thing to do if you find you really cannot evolve to this mindset is to abort mission.
Appoint a mindset evolution buddy
We really know where we have reached if we get unbiased feedback as human nature is to mostly think that we are the best. Appoint a ‘mindset change’ buddy amongst your close and trusted circle so that you get self-feedback which is unbiased and factual. And then you can take corrective measures.
Build self-tenacity
A spider is one of nature’s examples of sustained tenacity. No matter how many times a spider’s web is destroyed by the wind and other causes. It starts rebuilding its web again. To evolve to the growth mindset seamlessly you need self-tenacity as you might have to restart many times.
The mind only works when its left open
Move rigidity absolutely out of your mind and open all the mind windows you have been blessed with. Listen to what people say, be alert. Be open to feedback from others as well as experiential knowledge. Be flexible to change and even change your old perspectives when they get outdated.
Celebrate your hard work
Its completely normal to celebrate milestones and results you achieve but as you evolve and change you must celebrate how hard you work. Nothing happens overnight but if you are even ahead of your short-term goals, give your mindset buddy and yourself a good treat. You deserve it!
“It’s not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.”
Carol S. Dweck (Author- Mindset: How you can fulfil your potential)
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