Mind SET?

Wondering this many times Mindset. How does this exists. What are the various influences and What the hell is this and how does it benefit. There are many books on mind control. I have read few of those books which also speaks about positive energy, thought process, being optimistic. Instead of dragging, let me jump to the point.

What is mind set? There are many ways to look at this. We sometimes come across Global Mindset, in this case there are common global thoughts which affect/effect our mind. Like the issues on terrorism, war and peace. The global mindset is more towards peace.

For an individual there are a lot of things which creates or affects their mindset. Widely it could be categorized into two, fixed and growth mindset. Let me provide a small brief on these two. I really want to keep this post as brief as possible and yet communicate it effectively.

Fixed mindset

People who believe "they are the way they are" fall into this category. It doesn't mean that they don't want to grow or something like that. In fact the people with this mindset want to look smart, want to grow and want to be good. To reach there though, there are few factors.

Challenges: Usually challenge is hard and success is not assured. The people with fixed mindset to protect their self image, they prefer ignoring it and do what they think they are good at.

Obstacles: Challenge can be avoided but obstacles are external force and it comes in your way. People with this mindset mostly give up easily.

Effort: The people with this mindset usually see it this way " what is the point if I put effort and I am still on square one" Reasoning this out they see effort as useless or even if they take that one step they give up quickly for the same reason.

Criticism: The fixed mindset leads to take criticism as an insult or personal assault even if the criticism is given for their capability.

Success of others: These people benchmark the success of others against which they feel bad. Mostly when others succeed the people of fixed mindset convince themselves and people around them that the reason for the other persons success is due to luck or some objectionable actions. Sometimes they would even try to tarnish the success of others by bringing up some unrelated things.

As a result of these, they usually don't reach their full potential and their belief feeds on themselves. They don't improve or change with time. 

Growth mindset

The people with this mindset usually believe there is always scope of improvement and they improve their intelligence. The factors which define them are briefed in short.

Challenges: These people embrace the challenge and believe they would come out strong.

Obstacles: Obstacles are obstacles and people with this mindset usually face the obstacle strongly and come out of it rather than just giving up.

Effort: People with this mindset don't look at the result but they put their

effort and see that as their path to mastery.

Criticism: The growth mindset people don't take every criticism but they also don't ignore neither take it personally. The look into the criticism and evaluate themselves based on the received criticism. They also consider negative feedback and criticism as source of information.

Success of others: People with this mindset take other peoples success as source of inspiration and information.

As a result of these, they usually improvise themselves and create a positive feedback loop.

By this time you must have identified what is your mindset and also to a extent mindset of few people as well. If you think you fall under Fixed mindset, not to worry you can always make the change by being the change.

If you have kids at your home then you can encourage the child so that they have a growth mindset.

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