Pushing yourself outside your comfort zone is important. Beyond practice, deliberate practice on difficult challenges that are outside an individual’s comfort zone will help strengthen one’s skills.
By setting the right mindset ahead of time, one can be persistant and work past really hard problems. Instead of being set in failure, thinking “not yet” is a better more helpful mindset. This powerful mindset has taken underperforming children to the top of their state. The key to their performance shift was having the right mindset.
Grit - passion and perservirance over the long-term is what is one of greatest predictors of success, above IQ, income, and good looks. Talent is unrelated to grit.
Snobbery, rooted in envy, leads to unhappiness. In other words, comparison is the death of happiness. A society that tells you that you can do anything is most closely connected to a society made up of many with low self-esteem. Consequently, failure also feels much more crushing and deserved. And what people fear the most, is negative judgement by others.
Self-Awareness - 19, Self-Management - 22, Social Awareness - 22, Relationship Management - 17
It appears I need to work on relationship management. I assess that I need to be more concious of what the perceptions of other are generally and what their perceptions are in relation to me. This is an area tha t will be an interesting area for me to work on.Normally we are told to not care what others think. However, in reflection, I think this bad. We should care what others think, to a healthy degree. Caring is what helps buidl relationships.
My strongest areas were related to understanding bias. The areas I was weakest is in knowing how to act to combat bias. I will admit, I don’t know how to deal with this one. In the past, I encountered difficult situations related to employment. Perhaps this is what has made me so cautious to speak out at work.
Exercises to regularly put one’s self in a good mindset.