Qwhen we want, we can. ” Tired ? Sleep earlier. Not in shape ? Exercise more. (…) Didn’t study? Read books. (…) Too hard ? Try, fail, learn. And start again. » Here, in one LinkedIn post succinct, the mentality that Anthony Bourbon, founder of the start-up Feed (which offers meal replacements in the form of powders to be diluted), recommends that you have to succeed in your life.
When it comes to good resolutions, it’s always the intention that counts. Like our martial-toned entrepreneur, you can choose to enter 2023 with a steely mind, to advance in your career, develop your intelligence and talents, and advance your business. This is good, there is once again a concept to designate this will: it is the state of mind, or mentality, of growth, the “growth mindset”.
It is necessary, as often, to turn to the gold mine of personal development to find this expression, here in a book published in 2006, Mind set. The New Psychology of Success (Dare to succeed! Change your mindset in French), by the American psychologist Carol S. Dweck. The latter first observed this by studying the attitude of young students faced with failure: rather than their innate abilities, it is their renunciation or their desire to correct themselves that determines their future success.
“Getting out of your comfort zone”
Thus, the psychologist opposes the “ growth mindset » to “ fixed mindset » : those who have a “fixed mentality” are deterministic, pessimistic, and think things are what they are and won’t change. Are you a good football player who has always been angry with math? Impossible that you will one day be able to solve a trinomial of the second degree.
These individuals “fixed” come to terms with their skills and shortcomings, and take any criticism personally, while the growth mindset invites individual entrepreneurship, constantly asking yourself what can be improved, in your professional life by particular.
Good “mind set” is often sought after by companies in job postings, as is the ability to “get out of your comfort zone” or to think “out of the box” (out of the box) – a sort of contemporary equivalent of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave.
the “growth mindset” is also one of the five “soft skills” cardinal (behavioral skills) of the Blablacar HR department: “Share more. Learn more (share more, learn more). This first “BlaBlaPrinciple” no doubt reflects how much learning has always been a driving force for me, explained the founder Frédéric Mazzella to Decision Makers Magazine. If I don’t learn anymore, I fade. For a team, such “growth mindset” is a guarantee of connection with reality, of progress in relation to the obstacles that may stand in the way. In short, fail, learn, succeed. »
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