Often we heard or being taught that the belief of growth and success was linked to our intelligent quotient or to our natural talent and this would be enough.
Certainly this is not correct! Intelligence quotient (IQ) and natural talent are beneficial but they don’t predict someone growth and success.
It’s about our brain and the Mindset we choose to adopt.
Neuroscience shows that the brain is like a muscle. When we stretch it, it is designed to learn and grow.
First, let’s understand what is a Mindset?
Mindset is a simple idea discovered by world-renowned Stanford University Psychologist
Carol Dweck in decades of research on achievement and success.
Our mindsets and views on learning have a massive impact on our success in the short and long term.
People who believe that they can grow their intelligence and abilities are said to have a “growth” mindset.
While those who believe that our intelligence and abilities are set, or we have what we have, are said to have a “fixed” mindset
Differences between Fixed Mindset and Growth Mindset
Fixed mindset is the belief that basic qualities, like intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits and cannot be changed. It is the idea that we are innately intelligent, and do not develop brain or abilities. People with fix Mindset often spend their time documenting their intelligence or talent instead of developing them. This type of mindset may result in an avoidance of challenges, a fear of failure, difficulty responding to criticism, and feeling threatened by the success of others.
Growth mindset is the belief that brains and talent are just the starting point and most basic abilities and intelligence can change and grow through dedication, commitment and hard work.
A growth mindset is the mindset that we can do hard things. It promotes a desire to learn, allows us to embrace challenges, helps us persist following failure, encourages us to learn from criticism, improves resilience, and boosts confidence as well relationships. Adopting a growth Mindset creates motivation and productivity in the worlds of business, medical, education and sports.
To conclude :Your Mindset is your collection of thoughts and beliefs that shape your reality and it affects the way you think, what you feel, and what you do and it’s your own responsibility to promote it.
How to promote Growth Mindset “ The I can do Mindset”
To make this learning practically effective, below this workout that makes a real difference.
This is one of the most utilized exercises for building growth Mindset. This is simple; it’s called “Getting into a CAN DO MINDSET”.
1- Stop using these words: No”, “I can’t do this”, “Have to”, “Should”, “Must”, “I’ll do it later “. All these words are toxic for your brain. They slowly and very surely killing all the self- esteem and self- confidence you have and put you in fixed mindset mode.
Replace it with strong words such as: “I will do this”, “I am doing it”, “Sure”, “Yes”, “Of course I can do it”, “I can”, ‘I am able” “I will “.
2- Pay attention to the further down statements and what you say to yourself.
Fixed MINDSET Growth MINDSET
Instead of Go to
I just can’t learn about it My brain is built to learn
I am not good at this What am i missing?
Either I am good at it, or I am not I can learn anything I want
I am ok at this I am on the right track
I give up When I am frustrated, I persevere
This is too hard This is challenging
I can’t make this any better I can always improve, I will keep trying
I just can’t do this I will train my brain to do it
I made a mistake Mistakes help me to learn better
He is so smart; I will never be that smart I am going to figure out how he does it
I am good enough Is it really my best work?
There is such a great line between what you think you can do and you can actually do that you will be amazed. Because you are set on saying “I can’t do this” you won’t even start even though you can do almost anything if you want. Just begin by saying “Yes I can”. Use the brain to your own advantage and you will notice that your percentages of successes will start to go up and this will prove to you that you CAN actually do it.
3- Take the challenge and observe your Mindset when in different situations.