Amal Totkay
By: Sameen Tahir
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Developing a growth mindset

Growth mindset reflects the belief of an individual who thought that talents and skills can be developed by practice, hard work and some totkas as given by Amal academy. People with this mindset have a high rate of personal development, have high motivation and elevated chances of professional and career advancement.

I personally believe that creating new habits on a daily basis with consistency is very crucial in the development of a growth mindset.

Tip # 01

Creating new habits

No one born with all the skillful habits need to boost his career and personality. New and powerful habits always need to be incorporated in yourself.

A concept labeled as the Kaizen approach states that there should be a continuous and steady improvement (even 1% daily) in order to make big personality changes in yourself. Now a question may arise: How can these improvements be made? By making best use of leisure time, by learning small habits, by accepting these habits as a challenge for yourself.

Tip # 02

Self talk

The second important thing in growth mindset development is self talk. Take some time for self reflection, even 5 to 10 min. daily are enough. You can't achieve any success or can’t go successfully from any difficult situation until you tell yourself that you can do this, you have potential to go through all these circumstances. Your thoughts and perception about you will shape your actions and behavior. Boosting and motivating yourself constantly and having a positive outlook about yourself are very successful approaches in the way of maturation of growth mindset.

Tip # 03

Get out of your comfort zone

This totka refers to the behavior of accepting challenging situations and prove that you can perform best in that situation. The process of learning is always hindered in a comfortable zone because people in this zone are deprived of trying new things, taking risks and doing more adventures in life. Their movement is restricted however keep moving is the key to have a growth mindset. In order to learn something new and productive one has to step out and come in the area of difficulties and challenges. This step makes a person more confident, broadens his learning experience and he will explore more, at that time he will learn and start growing.

Tip # 04

Ask people help

Feedback is a gift one can give to others. It helps in evaluating our behavior or change and then modify or improve it accordingly. Sometimes we can't judge ourselves properly so to have a clear idea of how i am performing needs honest opinion from the people surrounding me that care about me and my progress. Feedback helps to identify and then rectify the mistakes following continuous learning and improvement process as a result greater performance can be observed.

Productive and constructive both types of feedback helps in improving the performance. As a growth mindset demands continuous learning and improvement which can’t be achieved without feedback. It boosts productivity and performance by notifying about areas of improvement and appreciating about best parts.

Tip # 05

Fake it till you make it

Pretending to be comfortable with the new habits. Fake it or pretend before achieving something like confidence and competency is a very successful tool in having growth and flexible mindset. This technique helps in increasing the chance of getting the thing we were pretending for.

These all totkays can be implemented in life with some struggle. Start with creating new habits in yourself that you think will polish your personal and professional capabilities, by doing so you will definitely need to step out of your comfort zone. In the way of making yourself comfortable with new habits, fake in front of others that you have adopted the habit and then take feedback from the people near you. In the whole journey don’t forget to motivate yourself.

Currently I have started taking feedback from the people around me that are sincere with me and give me honest opinions regarding my work. Secondly, I am practicing developing new habits on a routine basis and yes I do motivate myself before doing any challenging work. I believe that human beings are given with such will power and capabilities that he is able to do everything that he decided to do with dedication and persistence.