positivemindset

When you read the book “Growth Mindset” by Carol Dweck there is one common message resonating across the pages. And that message is that growth mindset people learn from their mistakes and prepare using those inputs for the next iteration whereas people with a fixed mindset are reluctant to change.

This is such a simple and poignant message.

Our education system prepares you with endless data and intelligence. Your office or workplace tends to freeze people with their past performance and results. But all those are less relevant for your next step whereas what is important is that you incorporate your learnings for your next effort, next pitch, next leap or whatever next step forward that you are going to take.

How you learn from your own feedback loops and how you incorporate those inputs and again learn, keep improving as you climb up the curve is perhaps the most effective way to stay ahead.

If you have already been successful in some field taking comfort from your past results, then without you being aware you are slipping into a fixed mindset.

Being prepared to listen to feedback, on the other hand, opens your perspective to try new aspects which you haven’t considered before thereby opening yourself up to newer possibilities.

In this new era, if we want to thrive, to grow and to reach newer goals, newer versions of yourself which you had not envisaged before then we should learn from feedback loops. Wishing you all the best in this journey.