How Your Mindset Affects Your Productivity and Personal Development
Your mindset consists of a collection of your ideas, beliefs and perspectives of seeing things; it’s also a set of assumptions held by a person or a group of people. It shapes the way we see things around us.
It may be so firmly established that it creates a powerful incentive within these people or groups to continue to adopt or accept prior behaviours, choices, or tools.
Mindsets shape the lives we lead, the actions we take and the future possibilities of the world we live in.
A research done by Carol Dweck brought to light the essence and role of mindset in our day-to-day life, how it affects us and also its types. In one of the summaries, it was noted there are two types of mindsets, which are the: FIXED and GROWTH MINDSET.
People who possess the growth mindset believe their talents can be developed through hard work, dedication, learning and observation. They are open to learning and have a ready and open heart. As the name implies, you grow, become more productive, you don’t stay on a spot.
The growth mindset crates a powerful mindset for learning. Having this mindset makes you get better as you learn from mistakes and lessons instead of proving how great you are.
On the other hand, those who possess the fixed mindset believe that their traits or talents are fixed and can’t be changed. They believe talent, not effort leads to success. People with a fixed mindset document their talents and intelligence rather than working on them.
Having a fixed mindset makes you believe your qualities are unchangeable,and it makes you prove yourself over and over again instead of learning from your mistakes.
Difference Between Fixed And Growth Mindset
1. The fixed mindset avoid challenges, the latter embraces challenges.
2. People who possess the growth mindset learn from failure, they find opportunity in every setback hence they become successful. On the other hand, those with fixed mindsets get stuck after failure. They believe they can never achieve success, hence produce lots of behaviours that attracts failure towards them.
3. Growth mindset keeps learning; the latter quits right after formal education.
4. A growth mindset looks for the way(s) to efficiently learn and improve. Fixed, on the other hand, are stuck in the present because they don’t see any improvement that can be achieved through time and effort.
Ways Growth Mindset Makes Us Productive
It helps us makes the best use of our resources (become more productive) – our time, our energy and our efforts.
It is not trying to do everything and be everything or even doing it in the quickest way possible. It is making the most and best of what you have while enjoying the process.
When we put our growth mindset into use, we have some of these elements: Curiosity, Perseverance, Vision, Critical Thinking, Productivity and Open-mindedness.
How Can I Develop A Growth Mindset?
- Try different learning tactics. What works for one may not work for the other.
- Always replace the word ‘failing’ with the word ‘learning’
- Try as much as possible to learn from other people’s mistakes.
- Don’t seek approval. Instead, focus on your learning and growth in the area.
- Embrace challenges and failures. See them as stepping stones and testing grounds to where you desire to be.
Cultivating a growth mindset could be the single most important thing you ever do to help you achieve success. Do give this a read and I’ll love to get your comments😉
