Moving from the sustainability mindset to the growth mindsetThe journey from the sustainability mindset to the growth mindset is indeed challenging but rewarding. Said Confucius” It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop.” People tend to stay put with the sustainability mindset because it ensures their hospitality in the comfort zone, it doesn’t challenge them with any unfounded fear of the future, it helps them to stay secure with the resources they have and that they have earned or assimilated over a period. The sustainability mindset ensures a non-challenging routine and move in the known path rather than moving towards a path less travelled and is unknown. The sustainability mindset in indeed a projection of one’s compromise with the known and the unwillingness to explore the unfathomed oceans of the unknown. In contrast, the growth mindset calls for a continuous engagement with exploration, the willingness to take risks and experiment with the allied and auxiliary capsules of knowledge, the willingness to be more dynamic and invest in the future.
Let us consider a few methods by which one can engage with this directional change.
1. Growth mindset Is demonstration of life.
Growth is an organic process and ushers’ life into the existing system. It acknowledges the need to move from the static state to the dynamic state for an existential recognition of both the biological life and the intellectual life. It recognizes the existence of knowledge and experience beyond one’s own universe of operation and the wisdom to deal with better things outside one’s own cognition. It triggers curiosity, pathways to novelty and seek newer meanings to the known and meanings to the unknown.. Says B.C. Forbes “History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.
2. Growth mindset helps to realize potentials beyond presumptions.
“It takes courage to grow up and become who you really are.” Said E.E. Cummings. Many of us consider our current state of existence as the ultimate reality and hence are unwilling to negotiate with the bigger, larger and more competent self in us. The lack of awareness about the self, its strength, its potentials and its possibilities hold the individual in the dark. It is important to believe, and therefore act towards identifying and experiencing the bigger, the larger and the competent self in us and give it a fair chance to express itself in totality and play its own game.
3. Growth mindset helps to redefine the self and our operating universe
Think that the limits you have awarded to yourself, its potentials are your own creation and hence can be redefined. The human mind tends to define many things on its perceptions. It tends to believe that only that is perceived exists. And hence it doesn’t give due place, consideration, opportunities to the intuition, the gut feeling and the strength of the inner potentials. It refuses to believe that every limit is a limited version of the limitless and hence unwilling to invest in unknown. Any process of growth calls for self-acceptance as well as self-motivation. Experiences and failures do help us to redefine, reposition and be resilient. Says Joshua Marine, "Challenges are what make life interesting. Overcoming them is what makes life meaningful."
4. Growth mindset triggers and empowers new learning.
Growth is an outcome of new learning, new experiences, new observations, new connection and new relationships. The fear to engage with learning either due to a sense of self-pity or self-contempt, the fear to engage with learning as it would expose our current presumed status or rating will certainly hinder growth. Learning provides opportunity for growth, introduces to newer possibilities, and helps to destress and relieve us from any anticipatory neurosis from the invisible and the unknown. "Vision is not enough. It must be combined with venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps; we must also step up the stairs" says Vaclav Havel. The neuroplasticity of the brain provides limitless opportunities for new learning and thus to stay current with what happens.
5. Growth mindset gives a 360-degree vision of the universe of operation.
Growth could both be unit-directional and multi-directional. The moment one is willing to subscribe to the idea of growth, it opens our mind to innumerable possibilities all around our universe of operation. We try to understand that each nut and bolt of the existing system is a different universe and hence our insight and hindsight about what we do or with what we are engaged gets redefined, repurposed opening newer reasons to negotiate with them with better perfection. We realize the meaning of the statement that every microcosm holds a macrocosm in its body, energy and form. The ability to deal with each of them either singularly or collectively takes us towards growth. It is important to understand the meaning and implication of the words of Elbert Hubbard, “The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make a mistake.”
It is time that our education system focuses on developing the growth mindset in the minds of our young achievers.
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