“It’s not enough to be in the right place at the right time, you must be the right person in the right place at the right time.” T Harv Eker
If you really want to be a good place for success, you’ve no choice but to adopt a growth mindset. A growth mindset is based on the premise that, with the right strategy and enough effort, I can get better at anything. A fixed mindset approach states that you are born that way, you can’t change it and you can’t learn and grow.
Recent science shows that it’s very possible and that the old thinking was wrong. The field of neuroscience has shown that you can physically grow your brain, speed up the circuits in your brain and rewire your brain for increased performance and intelligence on specific tasks. So, there you have it, you can now kiss your fixed mindset goodbye.
Here are the four key ingredients to growth that you need to embrace when entering a growth mindset:
• Effort. You need to know that you must put an effort in whatever you need to grow in. This is critical, important, useful and leads to growth.
• Challenges. You need to accept and embrace challenges as opportunities for growth. You need to persevere and know that challenges pull you out of your comfort zone and bring out the best in you.
• Mistakes. Don’t hate them, don’t avoid them and don’t get discouraged by them. Instead, use them to learn a better way.
• Feedback. Don’t get defensive or take it personally when receiving unfavourable feedback. Appreciate it and use it to your advantage.
You have the power to live your dreams.
