ROC Weekly Management & Mindset Segment
Cultivating a Growth Mindset to Enhance your Capabilities and Improve Your Rehab Facility
The way we think ourselves, our lives, and our businesses affects what we achieve. Ideas about your capabilities, strengths, and abilities have a large impact on whether you pursue new challenges, overcome obstacles, and learn new skills. A growth mindset is the belief that you can and will develop in skills and intellect over time.
Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts. –W. Churchill
This quote, and the growth mindset, premise that what is most important is seeing challenges as opportunities rather than obstacles. The growth mindset is crucial for motivation, resilience, performance, and learning.
Fixed mindset vs. growth mindset
There are two ways people typically think about their skills and knowledge:
Fixed mindset: People with a fixed mindset believe that their intelligence is static; whatever they are born with is what they have.
Growth mindset: People with a growth mindset believe that they can develop their intelligence and abilities through effort, action, and learning.
Fixed mindset
People with a fixed mindset believe that the skills and knowledge they have are innate and cannot develop or grow. They often avoid challenges, get intimidated and threatened easily, and give up when things are challenging. This type of mindset often includes negative thinking and resists feedback from others.
Growth mindset
People with a growth mindset are more likely to be motivated and seek feedback to correct and improve their actions. They are less likely to experience burnout and typically have fewer psychological and behavioural issues. A growth mindset encourages lifelong learning, effort, and hard work to develop and improve oneself.
From: https://www.mindsethealth.com/matter/growth-vs-fixed-mindset
Ways to develop a growth mindset
Here is a list of ways that you can develop a growth mindset to benefit your personal and professional life:
Remember, you can always improve: Your brain continually grows and develops. Through studying and practicing, you can rewire your brain and learn new skills regardless of your natural talent towards them.
Consider all the options: People with fixed mindsets typically continue to take the same approach to their challenges, but what happens when that approach doesn’t work anymore? It is important to consider all approaches and tactics you can use. The more options you have, the more likely you will be to solve any problem you face.
Embrace the process: The point of the growth mindset is to learn to improve, not to achieve. Try to emphasize the steps you are taking rather than the goal itself.
Get feedback: By gaining feedback on your performance, you can gain insight into your strengths and learn more about what you can improve. This can help align your efforts where they are needed and increase your motivation.
Reward yourself: While it may seem intuitive to reward success, be sure to also reward the process and efforts towards progress.
Reflect on the positives: Try to focus on what is going well to improve motivation instead of dwelling on what is going wrong.
Embrace your imperfections: Nobody is perfect. By embracing your imperfections, those things that make you unique, you can overcome your weaknesses.
Get out of your comfort zone: Finding the courage to get out of your comfort zone helps you develop and encourages a growth mindset.
Silence the “fixed mind” thoughts: Try to focus on how you talk to yourself and be aware of any negative thoughts. For example, when you notice yourself thinking “I can’t do this,” change that idea into something like “I can do this if I continue to work hard and develop my skills.”
Celebrate others: It is important to not view others as competition, but instead, celebrate their victories and learn from them. This will help you develop meaningful relationships and can help you grow.
Be mindful of your words: Be aware of self-fulfilling prophecies, both positive and negative. It is likely that if you tell yourself you are going to fail, you will. The opposite is also true. By thinking and speaking about yourself and your challenges in a positive way, you can change challenges into opportunities and better prepare yourself to overcome them in the future.
Ask for support: By asking for help, you advocate for yourself and are likely to develop faster than trying to overcome a challenge alone.
Accept failure: Failure is inevitably part of the learning process. Try to reframe failures as learning processes and keep trying to reach your goals. To do this, experiment with your challenges, analyze your mistakes, and learn to be patient with yourself and others. Every time you readdress your challenges, you are one step closer to overcoming them.
More tips to develop a growth mindset
Here are a few more tips you can use to create a growth mindset:
Use the word “yet” more often
Understand your limitations
Remember that actions matter most
Reflect on and learn from your successes and failures each day
Find others who have a growth mindset and learn from them
Take risks
Embrace the idea that hard work is more important than talent or genius
Create a sense of purpose
Learn from others’ mistakes
Remember that progress and growth matter more than speed
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