YOUR ATTITUDE WILL EMPOWER YOU MAKE MORE MONEY THAN INTELLIGENCE
“Success
in any facet of endeavour is deep-rooted in attitudes, not in aptitudes” - Dr Sidney Bremer. “Life is 10 percent
what happens to us and 90 percent how we react to it” - John Maxwell. “What lies behind us and what lies before us are
tiny matters compared to what lies within us” - Walt Emerson. As a matter of fact, attitude is everything. You
can only go in life as far as your attitude can carry you. The quality of our
personal attitude determines our success far more than our level of
intelligence, as we’ll soon see. But let’s first understand the terms, attitude
and intelligence.
Attitude is an inclination to respond either positively or negatively to a person,
situation, idea, or object. Every action is a product of some stimulus (such as challenge, incentive,
or reward); and an individual’s attitude is what determines his choice of
action.
On
the other hand, intelligence is “a property of mind that encompasses many related mental abilities, such as
the capacities to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend
ideas and language, and learn.”
Psychologist
Carol Dweck’s finding shows that our attitude in life is a far more powerful and decisive determinant
than our intelligence. She discovered that people’s fundamental attitudes fall
under two categories, namely, a fixed
mindset and a growth mindset.
People
with a fixed mindset can’t change. When faced with challenges, they feel
overwhelmed and hopeless because they can’t easily adjust to cope with the new
demands. On the other hand, individuals with a growth mindset believe that they
can make improvements by putting in more effort; they’re also both mentally and
emotionally flexible to adjust and cope with changing requirements.
Generally, people with a fixed mindset run away
from setbacks, can’t persist, see effort as waste of time and energy, and are
averse to any form of criticism. But people who have a growth mindset welcome
challenges, have a reasonable force of persistence and resilience, believe in
effort as the path to advancement, and are willing to learn from mistakes and
criticism.
These qualities empower people with a growth
mindset, even if they have lower IQ, to outperform in all facets of life those
with a fixed mindset. Since the former use challenges as learning opportunities,
they’re able to expand their perspective, broaden their experiences, increase
their emotional strengths, and enhance their creative and innovative capacities.
So the ability to handle difficulties, problems
and even initial failures, positively is crucial to success. High intelligence
that is not backed up by positive attitude is a great disadvantage because
instead of seeing and exploiting the new opportunities that emerge, the
individual will use his great brain power to analyze why the project, business,
or idea, won’t and can’t work.
Oprah Winfrey was
publicly fired from her job as a TV anchor in Baltimore because she was
believed to be too emotionally involved in her stories. Her positive
attitude enabled her to handle her failure. Today, she is a billionaire, the
undisputed television talk show queen.
Walt Disney was also sacked from
the Kansas City Star because his editor felt he "lacked imagination and
had no good ideas." His positive attitude saw him through. Today he’s
also a multi-billionaire.
Some
of the ways to build up a growth mindset are:
(1)
Develop passion: Your passion can
make up for your “deficiency” in intelligence or even talents. Passion is a
very strong feeling; it is more powerful than reasoning.
(2)
Cultivate flexibility: The world is
constantly changing at the speed of thought and light. A static mind can’t move
along its path of transformations. So you’ve got to be flexible.
(3)
Be proactive: This involves being able
to have foresight, create and control situations instead of just waiting to
react to them, and being expectant for the best in the future.
(4)
Put on your action shoes: People
don’t wear shoes and sit down, they begin to walk or run when they put them on. Thomas
Henry Huxley says that “The great end of life is not knowledge but
action.” And John Mason believes that “Action attacks fear; inaction reinforces
it.”
Individuals
that are empowered through their attitude pursue their visions and goals
relentlessly. Their growth mindset looks for opportunity in everything, and at
every place. So engage a growth mindset and take action daily on that dream,
and that action should start now!
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