5 ways to develop a growth mindset
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In the world reigned
In the world reigned by superheroes, where perfection and immediate success is praised and pursued at all price, we forget that successful people weren’t born that way.
Genius is 1% talent and 99% hard work. But that’s not all. There is one more thing you need to check before you roll up your sleeves.
It’s your mindset.
Ask others for helpMake
Ask others for help
Make sure you choose people who know you well and care about you enough to do it properly.
Ask your nearest and dearest to comment on how your functioning and interactions with people have changed recently.
People with a growth
People with a growth mindset believe you can grow, develop, and master whatever skills and abilities you wish in life.
It’s all malleable and you’re the one who can make it happen.
People usually have a mix of two mindsets, and that their mindset can change depending on the context or point in life.
So here are 5 ways to strengthen your growth mindset.
Do a cost-benefit analysisLook
Do a cost-benefit analysis
Look at the costs and benefits of your current way of perceiving yourself and the world around you. Is it worth shifting to a growth mindset, or would you be better off staying in the fixed mindset zone?
Draw a 2×2 table and look at the advantages and disadvantages of both: growth and fixed mindsets. With this simple exercise, you can clearly see how the old way of thinking is holding you back.
Give yourself opportunities to
Give yourself opportunities to develop a growth mindset
- Learn to spot when your thinking is slipping into a fixed mindset.
- Recognize your mindset is your choice, so choose right.
- Talk back to your fixed mindset voice, using growth mindset logic to argue
- Take growth mindset oriented action.
Act as-if (A.K.A. Fake
Act as-if (A.K.A. Fake it ’til you make it)
Even if you don’t fully buy into the new mindset, try acting as if you were.
If you act as if you were competent and confident in an area, it will eventually lead to improved competence and confidence.
Don’t let yourself slip
Don’t let yourself slip into a fixed mindset.
Don’t get tricked into traveling only the well-known roads.
Keep learning and expanding your horizons, look for new challenges, ways of stretching yourself.
If you want to be successful, a growth mindset is the only mindset worth bothering about. Everything else is learnable.
Mindset is a belief
Mindset is a belief system, which includes core beliefs that come from our innate dispositions, childhood experience and/or cultural/societal influence and are often entrenched.
Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) has tools to help you shift those negative beliefs. CBT is typically used in clinical settings but is also applied in self-help techniques to shift negative core beliefs.
But because these beliefs are often well entrenched, this approach comes with a warning.
Time and patience are needed to modify core beliefs, and the outcome may not necessarily be a total makeover, but a reduction in intensity.
Be a scientist –
Be a scientist – examine the evidence
Look at the evidence that supports your negative beliefs and then do the same for the growth mindset way of thinking.
You can use belief monitoring or recording worksheets to keep track of your thinking.