How to have a growth mindset in the year 2021?

Shahnaseeb Babar
7 min readJan 1, 2021
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Ever since the pandemic started, lots of us began to lose their jobs; some didn’t understand how we can pull through these difficult times. Thus, quite a large proportion of people suffered until the lockdown was eased up, a bit.

During this time, learning a new skill online started to become the headline of the day!

While we were focusing on making the best of additional time we got as a result of the lockdowns, I came across plenty of individuals who started to learn a new course. Within a month or so, they were earning from it. I, on the other hand, started to feel completely alienated.

This brought a question into my mind: why are these guys different?

To my surprise, I wasn’t someone with a growth mindset, and I lacked the motivation to learn something new. On the flip side, a few people I knew made the best possible use of their time; now, they have multiple income streams.

How did they do it?

To define a growth mindset, we have to understand how human psychology works and why some people never give up while others simply do. A growth mindset is when an individual learns from their mistakes or has a thirst for more knowledge!

Trust me, these guys don’t have three ears or four legs. They are around us, and…

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