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Have you ever heard someone mutter that there’s no use working hard since they’re never going to succeed? Have you felt that way yourself?
It’s easy to see how this pessimistic mindset makes it harder to succeed. If you believe there’s no point in trying, why would you?
On the other hand, being blindly optimistic about everything can lead to disaster. If you don’t think about and plan for negative outcomes, you won’t know what to do when they eventually arise.
So, if someone wants to succeed in their career, what’s the right mindset?
According to a new report, “future-mindedness” is the best success mindset. People with this mindset are more likely to succeed in their careers—and with less stress than others around them!
Read on to find out more about future-mindedness, and what changing your mindset can do for you!
A recent report released by scientists from BetterUp Labs demonstrates that people who subscribe to a certain success mindset do better in their careers, with lower stress levels to boot!
This mindset is called “future-mindedness,” which is also known as “prospection.” According to a news report on the research, people with this mindset share three traits:
When we fail, do we think about what we could have done differently, or do we blame someone else? When something goes wrong, do we wallow in disappointment, or look for a silver lining?
A person’s answers to these questions depends on their mindset. While most people only think about mindsets as patterns of thought, they go much deeper than that.
Our thoughts derive from brain signaling in the form of electrical stimulation and neurotransmitters moving from neuron to neuron. These signals move along pathways composed of neural structures that guide our conscious thinking, the way we interpret our experiences, and the way we’re most likely to react.
If you’ve been reading this blog, you’re familiar by now with the concept of neuroplasticity, and you know that our brain structure isn’t set in stone, but can be altered by environmental cues or by a little training!
If you’ve explored Innercise™, you already know all about repetition helping reinforce habits in our brains. By going through the same experiences repeatedly, you reinforce neural pathways in your brain, creating a habit. The neural networks you have a habit of using are much more “ready to fire” than those that are used less often.
It takes a lot of effort to step outside neural pathways that have been reinforced for years by a negative mindset or habits. But it is possible to change your mindset and build new habits that put you on the road to the high-paying career you’ve always dreamed of.
If you’ve read this far, it’s probably because you want to be more successful: You want to increase your income, get a job with more prestige, or achieve a goal you’ve been working for!
Have you ever heard someone mutter that there’s no use working hard since they’re never going to succeed? Have you felt that way yourself?
It’s easy to see how this pessimistic mindset makes it harder to succeed. If you believe there’s no point in trying, why would you?
On the other hand, being blindly optimistic about everything can lead to disaster. If you don’t think about and plan for negative outcomes, you won’t know what to do when they eventually arise.
So, if someone wants to succeed in their career, what’s the right mindset?
According to a new report, “future-mindedness” is the best success mindset. People with this mindset are more likely to succeed in their careers—and with less stress than others around them!
Read on to find out more about future-mindedness, and what changing your mindset can do for you!
A recent report released by scientists from BetterUp Labs demonstrates that people who subscribe to a certain success mindset do better in their careers, with lower stress levels to boot!
This mindset is called “future-mindedness,” which is also known as “prospection.” According to a news report on the research, people with this mindset share three traits:
Workers on teams managed by people with this success mindset scored 18% higher on tests of performance and innovation, and were 34% and 35% less likely to report symptoms of anxiety and depression, respectively. They were also around 15% more resilient, allowing them to cope with stress much better than their counterparts.
Who wouldn’t want to get in on that? Despite how great this mindset sounds, 82% of the population BetterUp Labs surveyed hadn’t fully adopted it.
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When we fail, do we think about what we could have done differently, or do we blame someone else? When something goes wrong, do we wallow in disappointment, or look for a silver lining?
A person’s answers to these questions depends on their mindset. While most people only think about mindsets as patterns of thought, they go much deeper than that.
Our thoughts derive from brain signaling in the form of electrical stimulation and neurotransmitters moving from neuron to neuron. These signals move along pathways composed of neural structures that guide our conscious thinking, the way we interpret our experiences, and the way we’re most likely to react.
If you’ve been reading this blog, you’re familiar by now with the concept of neuroplasticity, and you know that our brain structure isn’t set in stone, but can be altered by environmental cues or by a little training!
If you’ve explored Innercise™, you already know all about repetition helping reinforce habits in our brains. By going through the same experiences repeatedly, you reinforce neural pathways in your brain, creating a habit. The neural networks you have a habit of using are much more “ready to fire” than those that are used less often.
It takes a lot of effort to step outside neural pathways that have been reinforced for years by a negative mindset or habits. But it is possible to change your mindset and build new habits that put you on the road to the high-paying career you’ve always dreamed of.
If you’ve read this far, it’s probably because you want to be more successful: You want to increase your income, get a job with more prestige, or achieve a goal you’ve been working for!
Innercise™ is a science-backed way to take control of your incredible brainpower that can help you strengthen your mindset and adopt the right habits for success. An Innercise™ is a simple brain exercise you can perform practically anytime, anywhere, to help you take back control of your brainpower! Not only that, it’s all scientifically proven!
Using an understanding of how the brain can be shaped and molded with a little practice and dedication, brain training expert John Assaraf developed Innercise™ in collaboration with some of the top neuroscientists in the world. His organization NeuroGym shares this knowledge with hundreds of thousands of people around the world every day—people just like you!
In this section, we’ll go through some basic Innercises™ you can use to strengthen your success mindset. You can find more information at NeuroGym.com, as well as tips, advice, and online workshops for taking charge of your brainpower, and your success!
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“If I want to get that high-paying position, I need to carefully prepare myself for the interview.”
People with this aspect of the future-oriented success mindset carefully think about all aspects of the situation they face, and set realistic goals with a plan to achieve them.
People who make realistic plans in their work and personal lives are also less stressed than those who try to “wing it,” or who make plans they can’t feasibly follow. Burnout is inevitable if you don’t schedule yourself enough time for relaxation and self care, while trying to play it by ear can leave you blindsided by unexpected hurdles.
According to John Assaraf’s philosophy on setting and achieving goals, having a solid plan is an essential part of the process!
Want some inspiration for setting up a realistic plan to achieve your career goals? Need help making planning a habit? Try the Strategies, Tactics, and Timelines (STT) Process from NeuroGym!
The STT Process helps you create this plan by providing a template based on three questions. Once you’ve decided on a goal, try grabbing a pen and paper and filling these out! Let’s say your goal is to increase your income at your current position.
The first step is to pick a strategy—how will you achieve that goal? In this example, you could sit down with your boss and make a reasoned argument that you should be making more money.
The second step is to pick a tactic—what’s an actionable step you could take towards achieving that goal? In our example, the tactic could be to research what other people in your position with your experience are making at other companies and present these statistics at the meeting.
The final step is to make a specific timeline for putting that plan into action. In our example, you could decide that at 6 p.m. after work on Tuesday and Wednesday you’ll do the required research, and on Saturday morning at 11 a.m. you’ll sit down and make a dossier of the information you want to present.
“I don’t know if my boss will give me a pay raise, but I’ll ask. I think I have a good chance since my numbers were so high this quarter!”
While pragmatism is an essential part of the future-oriented success mindset, so is a realistic level of optimistic action. Increasing your income and advancing your career requires a certain level of risk.
Optimism is also important to incorporate into your success mindset for another reason: mental wellness. Having an optimistic view of the future and your power to change things can increase your overall well-being, reducing stress as well as anxiety and depression.
How can you shift towards making optimistic action a habit? One Innercise™ that can help you in this area is the AiA process, which stands for Awareness, Intention, and Action. Doing this Innercise™ daily works the brain “muscles” you need to strengthen in order to take action to achieve your goals.
Before you do this brain workout, make sure you’re feeling calm, and take deep, slow, even breaths by performing the Take 6 Innercise™ first (find it at the link above)!
Next, think about the three concepts of the AiA process:
Awareness: As you continue breathing deeply, be mindful of your body and how it feels. Are you tense? Jittery? How are your thoughts? Are they positive, or are they negative and pessimistic? Are you feeling critical of yourself, or are you confident in your ability to achieve your goals?
Don’t try to change your thoughts and feelings now; just focus on being aware of them.
Intention: Now that you’re truly aware of the negative thoughts and feelings holding you back, think about how you can change them. If you’re currently stuck in a low-paying position, are you going to wallow in fears that you’ll never advance further, or will you take action to advance? What’s the plan going forward?
Action: Once you know how you intend to change your situation, think about one action you could do to put that into practice—something realistic you can do today. Visualize yourself doing that, and set your intention to put that plan into action.
Doing this daily—or whenever you feel you need to—can help you change to a more positive mindset around how you go about achieving your goals!
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“I want to apply for a higher-paying position, but I’m missing some of the background the posting asks for. I’ll try to highlight how my skills will make up for that.”
We know, we know—we just told you to be optimistic! But optimism and pessimism are not a binary; they’re a spectrum, with realism/pragmatism in the middle. In order to adopt the best mindset for success, you need to have a realistic view of the ways you might fail, as well as the ways you might succeed.
This does not mean to slide back into ruminating on the worst case scenario! Instead, think about the goal you’re trying to achieve. What’s actually standing in your way? What will you do if you run into a problem?
The main advantage of realistically imagining what could go wrong is boosting your resilience. You can make a habit of dedicating mental space to considering potential roadblocks and what you can do about them, so that if they come to pass in reality, you can focus your energy on reacting positively. This will help keep your stress down and your eyes on the prize.
