Mindset Explained in Fewer than 300 Characters
Think of your mindset as your mind’s default setting. It is a set of ingrained habits, beliefs, and tendencies. However it does not determine absolutely all that you do or how you behave — it mostly determines the things you don’t have to think about when you face a familiar situation. Although a healthy degree of discipline is important, having a good working Watch-Out-This-Ain’t-A-Yard Sale!
The way you look at things draws on your assumptions, methods, or notions (about the world and yourself), which together create a powerful incentive to continue to adopt or accept prior behaviours (such as collecting new fans for your social media page, getting feedback from backers in Kickstarter’s comment section), choices (such as setting up a rewards program), or tools developed by other people. Clearly it’s not always possible to consider every option before making a decision; such processes would overload the mind.
A mindset is something that every employee should be encouraged to adopt. A healthy organisational culture is one that encourages constant learning and an open-minded approach to problem-solving. Being flexible, quick witted and possessing a positive attitude will help employees succeed in promoting their company’s brand, products or services with the same ease as they are acquired. A mindset is a way of thinking about things, a lens through which a person or group views reality. It can be defined as the perspective or frame of mind being used to approach or solve a problem. When you think about it this way you can see how a mindset could change depending on the nature of the problem in question and the complexity of that problem.
