The Growth Mindset: When Becoming is better than Being

I want to thank those who left me a note and wished me luck when last wrote about about wanting to re-define my values. I am glad for the intellectual responses.
Today, I want to share about what I have read about mindsets.

My long experiences with the kids have shown me something.
Self-beliefs are powerful, and that the mind, is the strongest organ we possess. Our mind is able to grow. Intellectual capacity and skills, can be honed through effort and constant use. When you keep on learning, and picking up new skills, you develop..no matter what age you are.

So it is back to the aptitude working very closely with the attitude.
True, some people are blessed with more grey matter, but with experience, training, learning and perserverance, we can push ourselves up. If we want to, that is...if we continue believing that we can.

"People who start out the smartest, do not necessarily end up being the smartest."
How many of you out that are living proofs of that?
Yes, at one point of your lives, you were 'measured' by how you performed in the tests and examinations...but life is more than just exams alone. Life goes beyond proving yourselves by academic qualifications alone.

When the last set of results came out, I was shattered. For days, the sense of failure struck deep in my sense of being. I saw what happened as the only direct measure of my own competence and worth. And for days, I allowed myself to be paralysed by regrets and self-censure.

It is taking time to re-orientate my thoughts. It does take time to pull oneself up again. I have to keep telling myself that failure is just one setback in life...we do really have to learn to pick ourselves up, brush off the dirt, focus, and start all over again if the need arises.

Success is not all about proving to the world that you are intelligent, gifted or talented. In a paradigm shift, success is seen as stretching yourself to learn something new, or un-learning and re-learning something old...only from a different perspective. It is driven by a need to keep on growing and growing by developing yourself.

So here I am...at the next point of discovering myself.
I have made my choice. I want my mind to grow.
So...for the next few days, I am going to think deeply and reflect on where I would like to go...and I will allow my mind to take me there.


Dear God,
Again I pray, for the strength of my Iman, and for Guidance.
Bless me with your Nur of Knowledge. Ameen