Mindset of Adaptability

Because a mindset of adaptability, is a growth mindset since a growth mindset understands and accepts that in order for a person to grow or to transition from one level to another, it sometimes requires having to try new things and new experiences. There are some people who just don’t want to grow and if you’re someone who does not have a growth mindset then it becomes very difficult for you to make adjustments because you may not even understand why you need to make those adjustments and for such an individual, being or staying in their current state is fine even if they have to be in that state for the next 10,15, 20 or even 50 years. There are some people who are like that but such people don’t have what’s called a growth mindset. So, recognizing that change represents New Opportunities often times becomes very easy for us to be able to adapt effectively. I remember some time ago I used to work for a camp and there was this guy there who was the lead technical engineer and he was extremely experienced in what we used to do but what happened was that the only thing with him was that he was used to a certain way of doing things, very old school way of doing things. Very intelligent and brilliant guy however, one of the things that he didn’t like was adapting to change particularly technology, he didn’t like that at all so there are times when we’ll be in the office and he would say something like technology is the devil’s so the devil’s is what he used to call technology. Sometime went by and we had another person join the team who was also very experienced in fact he became the second most experienced within the technical team and this guy was very open to change. He had a very great growth mindset and he was willing to try anything as long as it was likely to make our way of doing things a lot better so what he did was a lot more adaptable. So, what happened was he got sponsored to go and have further trainings and doing other stuff which the more experienced one should have had and as a result, the more experienced one who didn’t want to embrace change particularly in technology started getting angry because this new guy had come in and within the space of about six eight months you know this guy was now beginning to overtaken him why because one had an adaptability mindset and the other didn’t so what it means is that if you’re someone who is not open to change who or willing to adapt to new ways of thinking or doing things, then what’s going to happen is that you’re going to be stuck and other people are going to overtake you so do not rest on your laurels.