It is certain that successful people like Bill Gates and Elon Musk have a growth mindset. However, there are several other mindsets that you can of course learn or develop.
1. Visionary
To prevent you from being confused in determining the direction of your future goals, you must be a visionary. With a visionary mindset, you can determine a long-term vision, implement short-term goals and choose the right strategy. Another thing you can get from a visionary mindset is the ability to maintain motivation and efforts to stay in line with the goals that have been set.
2. Optimistic
An optimistic mindset can bring happiness and also help you become more successful than a pessimistic person. Therefore, try to always think positively in order to be optimistic. But it must also be noted that you must remain realistic about your goals and results.
3. Dare to take risks
With this mindset you can get the opportunity and potential to achieve success. Remember, you won't know how far your limits are if you're too afraid to take risks. It could be what you think is impossible, after living it turns out to be quite easy to do. But don't take risks carelessly, you must be aware that there is a possibility to fail in the middle of the road later. Prepare yourself to face it, yes!
4. Persistent
Only having clear abilities will not be enough to achieve success, you must have a mindset that is always persistent and never gives up. The key is to stick to the values you believe in and set the right mission. You can learn from other people who have been successful about maintaining the persistence to get to that stage of success.
5. Curiosity
Successful people are also always curious about various things. This mindset creates a thirst for continuous learning. With great curiosity, you can continue to fight the obstacles that exist within yourself and never stop growing.
6. Know and love yourself
Successful people must also be able to know themselves well. This means knowing what you believe in values, goals, dreams you want to achieve, and what abilities you have. Applying this one mindset is very important because it can help you become more satisfied and happy. Plus, you won't be trying to be someone else and wasting your energy. You also have to love yourself because the impact is very big, you know! One of them is not easily distracted by negative things from other people.
7. Have a target and strive to achieve it
Wanting to be a successful person without having a clear target will not get you anywhere. On the other hand, successful people always set targets that must be achieved, complete with how to make them happen. This mindset also helps you keep working and try to make changes so you can get closer to your goals. On the other hand, you can continue to reflect every day about new targets and activities that you can do.
8. Appreciate the success of others
Feeling jealous of other people's success will only slow down your journey to success. If left unchecked, your time can be spent blaming others rather than fighting for what you want. Appreciating the success of others will help you focus on more positive things and avoid feelings of resentment.
9. Dare to make decisions
The next mindset that you must develop is the courage to make the right decisions. How to? That is by looking for relevant information so that your mind does not guess or assume on its own. After that, choose the best option according to what you already know. If in the end the decision made is wrong, you can still learn something from that mistake.
10. Listen to intuition
Too often guessing the decisions you make will not solve anything. Thinking too much about something also results in a destructive process that has the potential to damage your career because you can't move on from the past. Take control of everything using thoughts and actions based on your own instincts. Oftentimes, listening to your intuition actually helps you get on the right path. You know what's good for yourself, right?
11. Failure is part of success
There are no successful people who fall into failure. They actually believe that failure is part of success and is a good opportunity to start over again. This mindset helps you get out of regret and gets used to failure. Because basically failure is also part of the challenges you have to go through.
12. Never expect luck
Luck does exist, you may also experience luck a few times in your life, but it won't be like that forever. So instead of hoping for luck, it's better to prioritize real effort. Successful people regard luck as something uncertain and consider real effort as a way to control the situation at hand.
13. Commitment
Commitment is also a mindset that you must cultivate so that you can maintain the motivation to achieve every target you have set. Plus you can also learn to be responsible for yourself for various things. Well, the most important thing is that you have to remember that commitment does not mean leaving other goals or the work you have.
14. Learn, unlearn, relearn
Like a mindset that continues to grow, the knowledge you have is also like that. The knowledge you gain during college or school, four or five years from now may be irrelevant. Because it is important to upgrade knowledge by learning, unlearn, and relearn. In short you have to keep learning all your life, then in the middle of the learning process you have to be able to forget irrelevant information, and end by learning something (perspective) new.
15. Criticism is a place to keep learning
Successful people think criticism is a concern from others, not an insult. With criticism, you can know the problems that exist in you and then return to the right path. Be grateful if someone criticizes you, especially for free or without being asked at all!
16. Rest is also important
Working hard is great, but rest is also important because your body has its limits. So make time to rest and restore the energy wasted when you work. The goal is that you avoid diseases that cause many activities to be delayed. It is better to take three to four hours of rest than to spend three to four days sleeping in the hospital.
17. Share with others
Successful people are never stingy with knowledge of others. The main benefit you can get from sharing knowledge is to increase connections. This connection will later give you a "surprise" that you can't predict. In addition, spreading knowledge can also be an endless charity as a provision in later life.
18. Force yourself out of your comfort zone
Too comfortable being in comfort can bring you into a stuck state and cannot grow into a better person. If left alone, you will end up having a fixed mindset. Learn a lot, try something new, hone your creativity, and keep innovating. That way, you can always move forward and achieve success even if slowly.
19. Changing habits
Habits also have a strong influence on the mindset. The human mind in general really likes a loop that keeps repeating itself, whether it's good or bad. This is what is called a habit. If you have bad habits that hinder the process of achieving success, immediately fix it from now on. Because the process of changing habits can not be done quickly, but it takes a lot of time and energy. As James Clear explains in his book Atomic Habits
20. Accepting Reality
The mindset of accepting reality means understanding what you are going through right now. This mindset makes you avoid feelings of stress that can hinder all your activities and activities. Successful people will always be able to accept what happens gracefully and go through everything well.
