Growth mindset is a productive mindset that is self-aware, self-renewed, self-evaluatory, and self-validating.
What is a mindset? Mindset is not just about what you think. Mindset is what you are within you and what you are made up of. Mindset is how you are wired. Mindset is the information at your disposal. It is the power of your mind. This power influences your thinking. This power affects and directs everything you do.
Mindset is your disposition. Mindset is your attitude; it is your inclination. It is your mood per time. But it is the product of the things, the information that you have been exposed to over time. This information could be in whatever form: words, pictures, videos, life experiences and more.
What is your disposition? What is your attitude towards everything that you do? How self-aware are you about this? Your upbringing through time is essential to your mindset. The way you were raised has a lot to do with how you think, how you see things and how you behave. This is because of the paradigm within you. Your paradigm is a set of programs that run inside of you.
These programs affect and influence your judgment of everything. They form your attitude and disposition. You act a certain way because of your paradigm (programs in your subconscious mind). And this will remain so until you make a deliberate shift. Making a shift is a personal decision driven by a conviction.
Now, there is your physical mind and there is the subconscious mind. Your physical mind is your conscious mind. It is the access through which you receive all the information that equip your subconscious mind.
You see with your eyes. You hear with your ears. You taste with your tongue. You smell with your nose. You feel with your body. Your body is dead without your inner mind.
Everything you take in through these five physical senses enriches your subconscious mind. We can look at your subconscious mind from the angle of the mental faculties of the memory, the reasoning, the perception, the intuition, the will, and the imagination. These consistently feed and retain information that the five physical senses supply.
The subconscious mind does not reject information. Whatever the physical senses feed on, it delivers to the subconscious and that is what the subconscious mind receives and acts on. The mind goes beyond the mental faculties and includes everything that works the brain and the heart. The mind is every sensory and neurotic properties within the human system that works and regulates consciousness.
The mind is not the brain. The mind is abstract. The mind is mental. The mind is not a physical entity. The brain is physical, but the mind works in the brain. Without the mind, the grey matter is useless. The mind is spirit. It is not physical. The mind is the totality of our consciousness.
The totality of these mental and other faculties that operate within is what forms and informs your mindset: your attitude, dispositions and moods. They either grow or limit us. We cannot grow beyond our consciousness and our imagination.
Whatever you are continuously exposed to feeds your within. This is the reason that the memory never forgets and at unexpected moments, it presents events that happened in the past. The memory is the part of the mind that feeds and reminds the mind what it works on and works with.
A growth mindset is powerful. It is productive because it is open to new ideas and thinking. The attitude is proactive. It is responsive, not reactive. It learns continuously because it entertains and accepts superior thinking and argument. It does not uphold or defend error in order to win an argument. It is humble enough to accept its state and works towards goals attainment through continuous learning and improvement.
A growth mindset is self-conscious. And because of this power of self-awareness, it can regulate and guide itself. It is informed because it is open to learning. It therefore renews itself since it can let go of obsolete information to take in new ones. It self-regulates.
Therefore it automatically updates itself. It renews itself because it has been programmed that way. It examines itself and so can evaluate its actions. This mindset wears the attitude of calm and dispels haste. It carefully weighs options and does not pre-judge anything before examination.
A growth mindset is an emotionally intelligent tool. If you have this mindset, you know yourself and continuously study and work on yourself. This helps you to know others and work on better ways to engage with others.
You accept others through the mirror of yourself. You see in others the basic humanity you see in yourself. The application of this is what makes you act human towards others always. You are human in your thoughts always. You act in the best interests always. You have your senses exercised towards value always. This makes your thoughts valid and therefore your actions are nothing otherwise.
You are a good judge of yourself and your actions. You can tell when you are wrong. You can collaborate with others, with whom you share common interests. You accept people for whom they are and decide whether you want to go with them based on your observations and evaluations or not.
With a growth mindset, mistakes are a learning process that keep you in focus of winning and staying in the balance as you navigate through whatever terrains of life. This mindset is programmed to bounce back quickly from setbacks because it self-regulates and self-renews.
A growth mindset partners with value. It embeds itself in the value chain. In this mindset, life is lived intentionally and deliberately for the attainment of purpose. Life has meaning in its most practical and realistic terms. A growth mindset is an intelligible mindset that is always in search of meaning, with an attitude devoted and committed to growth and satisfaction.
