Fixed of Growth Mindset

GIVING YOU THE KNOWLEDGE TO MAKE THE CHANGES YOU WANT FOR YOUR LIFE

‘Thinking The Right Thoughts’ is everything, because in every moment, your next thought will determine how you feel AND what you cause to happen next… - Con Castell -

Contents

Positive Mental Health

How You Became You

Trial and Error Learning

Personal Responsibility

CBT (Cognitive Behavioural Therapy)

Thought For The Today

‘Never confuse your nature with what you have been nurtured to become’

- David Green -

Do you have a fixed or a growth mindset?

Mindset plays an important role in our lives. Your mindset reflects your core values and beliefs; both of which influence how you make sense of the world and yourself. These in turn influence what you think and say to yourself, and how you feel and respond to life’s events and circumstances, in particular change, challenge and adversity.

A Fixed Mindset

This is a state of mind in which the individual sees everything as being set or fixed and unchangeable. These people believe that their skills, talents, intellect and personality simply are what they are, and that they cannot be changed to any great degree. Traits of a fixed mindset include:

Avoiding change or challenge
Giving up relatively easily
Fixed talents and abilities
Feeling threatened by the success of others
Ignoring or invalidating feedback and advice
The desire to be presentable and smart

A Growth Mindset

By contrast, a growth mindset is one that sees possibilities and opportunities, and believes that positive change can be achieved. This person with a growth mindset will possess the following traits:

Embracing change and challenge
Not giving up easily and persevering in the face of adversity
Understands that effort is required to achieve positive outcomes and success
Has the desire to learn and grow
They develop their abilities
They are pleased for the success of others and find them inspirational and motivating
They accept criticism and suggestions for improvement

Each of these mindsets influence compatible thoughts, feelings, actions and responses to life; inevitably resulting in completely different paths in life - one always feeling inadequate or unworthy, while the other recognises their own efforts and accomplishments, knowing that they did the best that they could do.

I short, the fixed mindset tends to negate and fail to take advantage of opportunity, while the growth mindset learns, grows, and has greater levels of self-esteem and personal achievement.

Whilst neither mindset is right or wrong; for they are what they are, if you desire positive change to take place in your life, then a more open and growth oriented mindset will be more helpful. If we have a fixed mindset, then change most commonly occurs when it is forced upon us. Such forced change is rarely positive, which can only go to reinforce the fixed nature of one’s thinking or mindset of course.