5 types of mindset

Social Mindset
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People who have the social mindset love to hang around with people, make new friends, and just explore new cultures and ways of life.

People who are social thrive of spending time with their friends. They also get a kick out of talking to strangers, and being able to enjoy conversation with them.

The advantages of having the social mindset:

You find it easier to make new friends
You possess great communication skills
You’re able to be comfortable easily in the majority of social situations

Growth Mindset

The growth mindset is a wonderful and amazing mindset. People who have the desire and drive to grow are always improving themselves. They love challenging themselves and constantly being better than they were yesterday.

It’s fairly easy to tell when someone has the growth mindset.

They like to make going to the gym a regular activity. They like to always being building their knowledge of themselves and the universe. They often become entrepreneurs seeking to help others grow, and they have an outlook that a situation can always be bettered.

The advantages of having the growth mindset:

You’re going to be improving different areas of your life at a fast pace
It’s going to be a lot easier for you to put in the work needed to succeed
The disadvantages of having the growth mindset

Fear Mindset

There’s a little bit of the fear mindset within all of us. However, those that let the fear mindset become their major way of thinking, become stuck.

People who let fear get the best of them are unable to use their time to the best of their ability. All those thrilling experiences, places traveled, achievements and such never happen.

They never happen because of the fear of what could go wrong, and that leads to a very minimal and quite frankly, dull life.

The advantages of having the fear mindset:

There are no real advantages
The disadvantages of having the fear mindset:

You can never achieve your dreams by being afraid
You will live inside a shell, afraid to try new things
It will become difficult to find your passion or purpose

Lazy Mindset

Being lazy is a pretty poor mindset to have, and it’s also a mindset that many more people are adopting upon themselves this day in age.

Why?

We’ve made them lazy. Through fast food and advanced technology such as the likes of TV and social media. Not to mention a number of other factors.

So we have no discipline and no desire to get off our asses and do something productive.

The advantages of the lazy mindset:

It’s easy to achieve happiness in the short term
The disadvantages of the lazy mindset:

You’re unlikely to possess the discipline to achieve big things
Your health is at risk
Your time is often being wasted

Envy Mindset

Someone who’s envious is often jealous of other people who’re perhaps doing better than them. Maybe they’re jealous because of someone’s success, healthy relationship, job, wealth, body, looks…

You name it.

While it’s not the best mindset to have, there are a few advantages of being envious that you might not have expected.

The advantages of the envy mindset:

It can be a motivational factor in pushing you towards taking action
The disadvantages of the envy mindset:

You will become obsessed with what other people are doing
You will waste time over other people easily
You may come across to others in a negative way