When you come across people with those wonderful brains, we often have the notion that the word 'success' is connected to them without any doubt. But this idea will change after you read the latest report by the researches conducted by the Stanford University and this might also change your attitude.
The studies was conducted under the leadership of Carol Dweck who is a psychologist at the University and she has dedicated her life to the study of the attitude and its effect on the performance level on the individual. And recently, she along with her dedicated team has proved that the role played by attitude in forming success stories is much greater than the role played the IQ level.
Dweck after her years of studies broadly classified attitudes prevalent among people into two divisions, fixed mindset attitude and growth mindset.
The people with a fixed mindset tend to believe that they do not grow beyond their capacity. They don't have a hope to change and stay as they are. Such people when faced with a challenge in life, fail to face it confidently as they believe that the solution is beyond their capacity. They tend to become desperate and devastated.
On the other hand, people who have been found to possess a growth mindset have a wider outlook into life and its challenges. They believe strongly that every step into life is a way to make yourself better with effort. When compared to those with a fixed mindset, these people perform much better when faced with challenges as they consider each difficulty that they face as a new way to improve oneself.
On a basic thought, we all like to believe that simple capabilities like a smart character can provoke ones confidence level. This factor remains true till the path is smooth enough. The real determining factor of a person's confidence level is the way he reacts when faced with a challenge or setback in life. It is in the nature of people with a growth mindset to accept life's challenges with a smile.
Carol Dweck states in her report that the proper measure of success comes when a person faced failure in his life. The outlook towards failures, by a person with a growth mindset has been described every effectively in her report. Such people see failures as a new set of information while others see it as a put down. Failures are worked upon by people with a growth mindset and try to come up with a new set of ways to face the failure.
But there is still hope for people who are of the fixed mindset. Changes to the outlook towards challenges and basic attitude can help in developing into a growth mindset. Here we have put down some simple points that will help you change your mind into the mindset of a growth oriented successful person.
Never be helpless: There are several occasions in life when we feel helpless. This feeling comes to every person, but your attitude will determine how you take care of the emotion. There are two options that you come across on such a situation. You can either let the helplessness crawl over you and put you down or you can face it boldly and learn from it to move up in life. Success stories of several people around you would tell you that they would have never made up to what they are now if they had let helplessness take over them. Walt Disney, one of the pioneers of animation industry was pushed out of the Kansas City Star with a label of being lacking in imagination and ideas. Henry Ford faced 2 major car company failures before marking his name in the automobile industry with Ford Motors. The renowned TV star Oprah Winfrey was fired from her TV host job and she later touched the pinnacles of success. You wouldn't believe that Steven Spielberg was rejected several times consequently by the USC's Cinematic Arts School. Taking these people into consideration, we can make an evaluation of what might have happened if they did not have a growth mindset. Of course, they would have felt helpless and lost all hopes. They would not have been what they are today. The anthem of people with growth mindset is to look back at failures and bounce up with all force back again.
Passion: We all have passions in life and people who are passionate about what they do put in all efforts to pursue it. Talent can be a determining factor as one person can be more talented than the other. But if you are low in your talent, your passion can fill up that space for you. People who are vested in their passion will keep on with their struggle to reach the excellence level. The 5/25 technique advised by Warren Buffett can help people recognize their passion. First you can begin by creating a list of 25 things that capture your interest. The last 20 are mere distractions and the top 5 are the most passionate things in your life.
Ready to Step into Action: People of a growth mindset realize the basic truth that acting scared and out of tension can knock out the person drastically. They are able to act above their fear as they are ready to take actions and not because they are brave. With a growth mindset, one develops an empowered attitude towards life and they realize that every moment is perfect and the action has to be taken at the right time and waiting for the perfect moment is stupidity. With the action taken, all worries can be dumped and if faced with a failure due to the action, then that failure is taken as a positive lesson learnt.
Exceed Your Level: Strong people do not give up even on their very bad days. They remain forever inspired to go up a level or two everyday. There is small instance from the life of Bruce Lee. One of his pupils used to run 3 miles with him everyday. Being a striver, he wanted to run two miles more on a day. The person was tired and reverted by saying that he might die if he runs two more. Bruce urged him to do it and the pupil finished the 5 miles all tired and angry. When asked about his action, the reply given by Bruce Lee was inspiring.
Pulling out from something is near to death. There are never limits to your capacity and putting down limits will affect your whole life gradually. The flat lands are not the limits and one has to go beyond it to see success in life. Even if the strive to cross the level kills you there should be no limits set.
Every day, the strive should be to make oneself better and not worse.
Await the results of the efforts: With a constantly working mind, the people of a growth mindset are always ready to face failures, but the never fail to look forward at the results of the actions. When one looks forward to the results it works like a push factor increasing the motivation and keeping the person charged.
Adjust to Situations: Misfortunes and hardships are a common scenario and to change your attitude to that of a growth mindset, it is necessary to see such situations as a chance to improve rather than a drawback. When an empowered person is faced with an adversity, he effectively adjusts himself to the situation till positive results are obtained.
Stop Complaining: People with a growth mindset do not complain about situations and they work their way out of any kind of disadvantageous state. It is in the character of the fixed mindset person to complain.
Conclusion
The above list can help you change to a growth mindset by keeping note of all the small things that correspond to the above listed points and thus you can keep yourself on the right track to success.
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