Living In Your Top 1%

Living In Your Top 1% shows you how to become your best self and live up to your full potential by outlining nine science-backed ways to beat the odds and achieve your goals and dreams.

Do you remember the last time you failed miserably? Did you get back up and try again? Or was your attitude more one of “I can never change?”

Carol Dweck explores how we react to failure in her life-changing book Mindset. In it, she explains her research about people’s growth or fixed mindset.

If you have a fixed outlook, then you’ll give up after failure. You think that you cannot change your abilities, mental or physical, no matter how much work you put into them. This way of thinking cripples your chances of becoming your best self.

Those with an attitude of growth, on the other hand, believe that change is possible, no matter how difficult. They get up after falling down, every time. Because of this, they’ll try new things and keep going even when it gets difficult. They’re correct about how personal growth really works, and as a result, they reach their full potential.So how can you beat your dysfunctional thinking and develop a growth mindset? Make it more difficult for yourself to be negative and easier to be positive.

Get a jar, and each time you are negative, put a dollar into it. Every time you use phrases like “I can’t” or “I’m never going to change,” you’d add money. When the month is over, donate the money to your favorite charity.

I used to focus hard on fixing everything that I was really bad at. A lot of the time, I wasn’t very happy because I was ignoring my strengths. But the moment I let go of my weaknesses and had room to work on and with my strengths, everything changed. I’ve worked more productive hours recently by doing work that I was naturally good at than I had at any point in my previous career that I was just okay at. The reason? I’m 10x happier with what I’m doing now. I actually want to do it, so I don’t have to think about being productive. The Gallup Organization conducted research that discovered that focusing on strengths is a requirement to reach full potential. Their study identified that when people that used their strengths daily had six times higher engagement levels at work. They were also three times more likely to say they had an excellent quality of life! Martin Seligman, the father of positive psychology, also conducted research that reinforces the truth that using your strengths regularly makes you happier. If you’ve ever seen people that seem to always…