
Hello Family!! it’s Friday 15th March 2019!! Wow the year is really running fast & we are mid-march already, before you know it, Q1 2019 will be over.
How far are you with your set goals & targets for 2019? Are you still on-track or off the rails? The next 16 days might be a good time to reassess & realign yourself.
Cultivating a growth mindset – I
In my previous post above, I tried to set a bit of a foundation regarding the topic “Cultivating a growth mindset” which was a LinkedIn course I took about 4 months ago as part of an e-learning trial team for my company’s HR department. This class was taught by Gemma Leigh Roberts, Chartered Psychologist, Executive Coach, and author.
We looked at the mind as the battlefield & that if you win in your mind, you will ultimately win in life, it’s just a matter of time.We started talking about the mindset, which is the established set of attitudes held by someone & how this is a reflection of a person’s world view or philosophy of life.
A person can be accurately analyzed based on their mindsets to a lot of things in life & there are both positive and negative mindsets. The good news is that we have the power & ability to shift from one to the other with the key being our ability to learn.
MINDSET IS A CHOICE
Today, let’s take it up a notch!!! We were created by God as tripartite, Man (the human being) is a spirit, armed with a soul & lives in a protective casing called the body that enables us to function here on earth. We have a choice as regards the type of mindset we deploy & engage with in our lives.
Now there is a counter argument to this as most people will say you don’t have a choice considering that you don’t choose your parents, family, society, nation, the type of environment you were born into or grow in & that has a huge impact on your mindset. Yes I do agree but despite that fact, your life is still your life & no one is responsible for it other than YOU!
It’s great to blame others while you are younger & have people making decisions for you, but as you get older, you need to take the driver’s seat of your life & start to make choice decisions. Don’t let your background put your back on the ground, you have the choice to re-invent yourself & evolve to a better YOU despite the challenges of life.
I didn’t have the best of template to follow growing up, but at some point as I grew older, I took it upon myself to shred the old templates, created new & better ones of my own which I intend to pass on to my kids with the mandate to make it better than mine.
TYPES OF MINDSETS
There are 3 broad types of mindsets namely:
- Fixed Mindset
- Mixed Mindset
- Growth Mindset
FIXED MINDSET
As the name implies, those with this type of mindset truly believe that their skills and abilities won’t change, that they’ve reached a certain level and that’s where they can expect to remain.
They see failure as fatal, as the end of the road, they have the notion that everything in life has limits & once you reach that limit, that’s it.
Feedback is not constructive for these type of people, they are unwilling to try new things ( ideas, skills, etc), are threatened by the successes of other around them & they don’t do well under the pressure and challenges of life.
Did I just describe you, someone you know or an organization you know or work with at the moment?
Don’t worry, remember that one of the keys to shifting from one mindset to the other is the ability to learn.
Learning is a a very important ingredient in cultivating the right mindset, so it’s good to know where you are at the moment so that you can map out where you want to be & how to get there.
Do you agree you have a choice in life & about your mindset?
Do you have a fixed mindset?
Are you willing to learn & evolve out of that fixed mindset?
Altering your mindset takes practice, commitment, and focus. When it comes to how you think and process information, there’s no quick fix. But you can make small steps towards how you want to change that over time can make a big impact.
This is my snippet…….. I AM SHALOMESQ
Thank you for sharing these thoughts on the growth mindset! I think it is very important to emphasize the process and effort of things like learning instead of treating them as if they are fixed traits in people. Carol Dweck provides great support for this notion, especially through her research and her book titled “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”. I recently wrote my own post on this topic because I believe it ties in really well to the field of positive psychology, which asks what it means to live a meaningful and fulfilling life. Feel free to check out the post and I welcome any contributions you may have to the content. Great post, keep up the good work, and I hope you are doing well!
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Thanks so much for your wonderful comments & for dropping by my blog. God bless you so much. I will check out & start to follow yours too. Yes I am doing great thanks so much for asking.
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Yes anytime! I am so happy that you stopped by as well, and thanks for liking that post! I hope that there was something valuable that you were able to take from it. May God bless you as well in your pursuit towards well-being!
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Thank you for sharing.My take away from this is that there is no such thing as “this is how I am”.There is always the option of shredding an old template ,creating a new one and running with it.
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That is correct!! We were born with no attitude why pick the wrong one. The biggest room in the world is the room for improvement!! Stay tune for more post in this series!! Regards to my namesake Ma’am
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You are on point. God created us with a “will mindset”, to decide what we want and run with it.
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Yes Olamide, we were created as free willed beings & we have a choice about what mindset to run with? The question is why run with the wrong one?
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This is so useful! How can I get notifications as soon as you post?
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Thanks for the feedback Anita. You can follow the blog or subscribe so that you get the post in your inbox as soon as its posted.
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Spot on.
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Thanks a lot bro
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Hmmm.
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It’s deep right?
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I absolutely agree with you that we can shift from a particular mindset to another by learning!
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