The July contest #1 by sduttaskitchen: Mindset!
Mindset is one of the most potent tools available to you-at your disposal, deep inside you, your mind set or frame of reference is perhaps the greatest instrument at your disposal.
Do you believe mindset can be a strong weapon? Explain your viewpoint!
If your mindset can be trained to be more of a growth mindset or a mindset of positivity, mindset can indeed serve as one of the most powerful weapons in your arsenal, enabling an individual to remain focused, conserve their mental energy, and perhaps find creative avenues that would remain previously unnoticed amidst adversity. Because after all, how and what you are able to achieve and do depends a lot on how your thinking influences it: you either shatter or come out of a difficulty armored.
Do you think that, if we can't change any situation, then our changing mindset towards it can be a solution? Justify!
Mindset adjustment when outward conditions can’t be changed There's been advice coming to us through generations on the lines of how the things we aspire to obtain may not necessarily coincide with what we encounter in life. In cases where we can’t really change the current set of external circumstances and conditions that we are faced with in our lives, what's really left to do for us then is to modify how we perceive our current situation.
The longer we wallow in bitterness over our predicaments that are immutable, the more we tend to do us self-damage.
Think of the implications of rephrasing your view of what is transpiring by considering: What should I do to overcome this problem as compared to the standard Why is this happening to me? This shift will reorient our perspective from external to internal to problem solving.
Mindset can be positive and inimical! How? Justify.
Mindset - a two-edged sword A mindset can either be conducive to our progress or hostile to our interests. Let’s analyze the two kinds.
Friendly mindset The ability of the positive kind of mind set to equip us to handle hardship and stress and respond flexibly and resourcefully is nothing short of astounding.
A mindset like this is the one you’ll have if you’re able to embrace a mistake as feedback instead of a reason for paralysis. Your mindset can also protect you from mental ailments if it’s the optimistic type. Toxic Mindset On the contrary, the nature of a mindset like this is one where it becomes limiting in terms of opportunities leading us to face all kinds of hardships. This kind of mindset is also generally stubborn which is the cause for limiting growth, problem solving potential and risk-taking traits, thus resulting in stress.
In summary, Mindset is either going to support you or ruin you.
It can be a weapon of self-empowerment or of self-defeat.
Thanks for reading my post I'm inviting @emmy01, @bela90 and @okere-blessing to participate.
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