They say your Mindset overrides everything, but the truth is that mindset alone won’t get you that far. Not all types of mindsets are created equally!
A mindset is a set of beliefs that govern your outlook on life! It influences decision-making, how you perceive the world, and, in return, how the world is reflected back at you. However, not all types of mindsets are the same!
You’ve met people with some of these mindsets before!
Let’s see which one fits you and which ones are the most valuable to install in your own operating system.
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Fixed Mindset
A fixed mindset implies that the rules are set in stone, that your qualities are set in stone, and that there’s no way for you to evolve or be flexible beyond what has already been established.
People with a fixed mindset are hard-headed.
They see the world in black and white. For these people, it’s all about the outcome.
Either you win completely, or you’re a loser. There are no second chances.
These are the people who believe in destiny.
Life has already been pre-written for them, so there’s no point in trying to change it.
A fixed mindset is one of the leading indicators of both poverty and misery.
If the individual does not believe it is in their power to change their reality, they will succumb to it as is or as others deem appropriate.
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Growth Mindset
The growth mindset is the complete opposite of the fixed mindset.
These individuals believe that reality can be altered through effort, discipline, and insight!
They see reality as limited only by their ability to understand it and the effort they put into changing it!
People with a growth mindset obsess over progress; they derive value from it.
“How far did I come? If I was able to come this far, how far can I go?”
They don’t like staying still.
Even in their time off, their mind still flies to what they could do better or next. Moreover, these are builders, and the project is never finished because there’s always more to do.
The downside of the growth mindset is that you get stuck playing infinite games.
It allows you to be incredibly successful in life, but you only draw validation from climbing even higher.
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Gambler’s Mindset
These are the people who are waiting for their big break.
They’re not chasing progress; they’re chasing the high of uncertainty.
They go all in even when they’re not supposed to, and this leads them to live one of the most chaotic lives. It’s unsustainable.
Their handicap is their inability to zoom out. The gambler cares only about the present moment.
They are spending everything they have right now. They can’t control themselves.
These are the people you see in the club on Saturday, but on Monday they can’t afford to pay rent.
These are the people who caught a win at one point in time, wasted it, and now keep on chasing after it while trapping themselves without realizing it.
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Type #4 – Victim Mindset
How a victim’s mentality kind of looks like
It’s never their fault.
The world is conspiring against them. It’s the parents, neighbors, teachers, friends, banks, governments, or the Illuminati that have made it their mission to keep them down specifically.
Nothing works as it should.
They’re always late; they’re always victims of circumstance: just happened to be at the wrong place at the wrong time.
They also can’t seem to catch a break. The victim believes they have so much potential, but they never got the opportunity to live up to it.
Blaming others for your situation doesn’t improve your life.
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Zero Sum Mindset
You believe the outcome is limited.
If you win, someone else loses. If you get rich, someone else stays poor. They believe there’s only a limited amount of reward.
The zero-sum mindset implies there’s only one pie, and if you eat too much out of it, someone else will not get their fair share.
In the world of the zero-sum mindset, the idea that you can bake unlimited amounts of pie is nonexistent.
They try to split what is already there instead of figuring out how to create more.
These are the people who believe in cutting expenses and budgeting and don’t realize that increasing their income is even an option.
One of the biggest differences between those who make it in life and those who don’t is the understanding that The whole is greater than the sum of its parts!
Together, you can take down a mammoth, while on your own, you stick to berries.
And 10% of the mammoth is way better than 100% of 9 berries.
If you believe you have a limited mindset and wish to transition to a growth mindset that will allow you to make progress in life, you need to try the Alux app right now.
The app is free to download, and there’s even a free trial for you to see what it’s all about.
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Follower Mindset
They hate making decisions.
They can never give you a straight answer, and they look to their spouse or others before they answer chocolate or vanilla.
They’re just there for the ride, and the thought of being in the driver’s seat terrifies them.
All their lives, they’ve looked for someone to sit in the shade with.
They’re the assistant, the momma’s boy, the teacher’s pet, and the one who never has any questions to ask. And the one who waits for the raise or Senpai to notice him.
The thing is, the world needs both followers and leaders.
In fact, followers are a net positive for the world when they’re following the right person.
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“I’ll do it Later” Mindset
It’s the “I’ll start on Monday” mindset; it’s the “this is my last splurge” mindset.
If you’ve been subscribed to our channel for a while, you know that the road to wealth is paved with delayed gratification!
In their case, it’s delayed productivity.
They won’t do it unless they can no longer procrastinate on it.
- They’re the ones who do a half-assed job submitting a 50% effort project 2 minutes before the deadline.
- They’re the ones who always say they’ll get shredded at some point, but not right now because they’re dealing with some things.
- They’re the ones who’ve been talking about starting that business for the past 3 years but haven’t done anything about it.
Don’t get us wrong: It’s never too late to start, but if you start too late, you might not get very far!
So get cookin’!
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Type #8 – One try Mindset
They’re like: I tried once. I failed… So it doesn’t work.
Guess what? Any form of success requires multiple attempts!
It’s actually what it takes to get good at something and increase your likelihood of success.
You shot a bow once and missed the target. It must be impossible, then.
Sounds stupid, right?! But people do this all the time, especially when risk or creative work is involved.
In their minds: They’re trying to spare you the pain and embarrassment.
They’ll even tell you about their attempt at it as if it were a large-scale academic study on the topic or veterans recounting the war, but when you drill a bit deeper:
How hard did you really try? You realize that you and they aren’t the same.
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My Way or No Way Mindset
You met this type of mindset in the kid on the playground when you were little.
You either played whatever they wanted or they got mad, took their toys, and went home.
That’s literally you as an adult.
Growing up, you met these school teachers who were obsessed with you using their methodology to solve the problem at hand.
Not only did they not reward you, but they actively punished any alternative ways of solving.
As an adult, you might find them in the workplace as your boss or even in your friend group as the person who wants to choose what everyone should do on vacation.
Pro tip: My way or no way only works if you’re the one paying for everything and you don’t really care if something happens or not.
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Gratitude Mindset
Remember number 2 on this list: the growth mindset and how we said they never have enough… They’re never satisfied.
The Goldilocks zone is when you mix it with a gratitude mindset.
This is someone who is grateful for their current reality. These people feel like they’ve already won.
They wake up every morning and realize that literally over a billion people would trade their lives for theirs, and all their wishes would come true. For them, growth is just a function of impact.
At Alux, the more we grow, the greater the impact we can have on the world.
A gratitude mindset means that if you were to die today, you would be happy with the life you’ve lived because you lived it right.
Gratitude is the gateway to happiness! And one can never truly be successful until they are happy!
For years, we’ve made gratitude a regular practice in our lives, so much so that we start every day finding a little thing to be grateful for.
It reframes the entire day, and people tell us we’re a better company because of it.
Most people don’t realize just how big of a domino this is because they’ve never done it consistently, so we decided to come and help.
We built a journal for people who don’t like journaling. If you download the Alux app, you can use the Alux journal for free.
Every day we ask you only 4 questions – with the first one being What are you grateful for today- plus 1 deep reflection.
It takes less than 6 minutes to fill in, so it’s easy to build the habit, and tens of thousands of people are using it daily because it makes them better.
Download the app and add gratitude to your day!
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Abundance Mindset
There’s so much beauty out here, so much abundance…
There’s so much love, joy, and happiness that there’s way more than enough to go around.
Even if we all got twice what we wanted, there’d still be way more left. The abundance mindset looks at the world as a playground.
This type of mindset means everything can be improved, enjoyed, and explored, and there’s nothing stopping you from doing it.
These people look at uncertainty as a possibility to improve the future, something certainty does not provide!
A scarcity mindset makes you put up walls and hide what you have from the world because you are scared someone will take it from you.
An abundance mindset allows your entire circle to win.
A scarcity mindset keeps all of you poor, and an abundance mindset makes everyone rich.
The catch is that unless everyone in your circle believes in abundance, there will be some who will try to make themselves rich at the expense of everyone else.
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Solution-Oriented Mindset
When a problem presents itself, people around the problem react differently:
- You have those who are the victims of the problem – we’ve covered them earlier –
- You have those who want to talk about the problem
- You have those who wait for other people to fix the problem
- You have those few who are actually looking to fix the problem.
Outside of these, there are some others, like those who like to complain or give their opinion on how the problem is being solved by someone else.
Everyone except the one fixing the problem is a net negative to the situation.
As a rule of life: Those watching from the sidelines should not interrupt those actually doing it!
A solution-oriented type of mindset is the reason why marriages last and thrive over time.
Instead of burying the feelings inside, they put them on the table, and those involved do not get up from the table until the problem is solved.
This also applies well in business.
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Creative Mindset
These are the people with ideas-people.
They’re not the ones on execution for extended periods of time.
They love the puzzle, but once they figure it out, they don’t want to be the ones doing the hard work of putting it together.
Most people look at problems with one solution in mind. A creative mindset figures out how to rearrange the prices and use them somewhere else.
In business, it’s figuring out that the person you hired for one position is better suited somewhere else instead of firing them.
- A creative mindset allows you to look at reality and create an alternative one that still gets the point across.
- A creative mindset allows the world to flow through them because they aren’t tied to a rigid framework.
- A creative mindset sees solutions where others see problems.
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Collector’s Mindset
These are the people who get excited by anything new.
The more pieces in their collection, the better.
They’re usually early adopters: they always get the new iPhone, they always buy the limited edition soda, and they drive across town to a food truck because someone on the internet said it’s good.
They’re collecting: experiences, things, and memories.
The downside is that the collector immediately wants to jump to the next piece of the collection, so you might be on vacation and talk about the next trip you want to take.
Their problem is that they never go deep. These are the people who sleep around but are emotionally unavailable.
For the collector, value derives from checking things off a list.
You’ve met people like this before who can’t wait to go after the next shiny thing to add it to their collection.
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Winner takes all mindset
This is the hyper-competitive individual.
They’re the obsessed cousins of the fixed and gambler’s mindsets.
It’s not enough for them to win; others must fail miserably.
They describe themselves as lone wolves, but in reality, no pack wants to hang out with them.
They take themselves way too seriously and only care about winning. If for any reason the outcome looks like it won’t turn in their favor, they quit immediately and point the finger at others who “didn’t pull their weight”.
They don’t inspire others.
We used to be like this in the early days, and it served us well to get us out of poverty, but as we have matured, we have realized life is a team sport—you need to learn to play well with others because no matter how good you think you are, you will lose to others who have their sh*t together working as a team.
Competition is only good for the customer. So we’ve stopped competing.
We only care about making the best possible app out there and giving you the most transformational content possible.
We’re doing it at our pace, and we value getting it right more than being faster than the competition. We thank you for being along for the ride; it really means a lot to us.
As you keep on making progress, inevitably, everyone outgrows the winner takes all mindset.
And now that you’ve read about all of them, be honest: what type of mindset are you? See you next time!
