Being smart is not enough to be successful in life. It is necessary to be able to use your mental abilities given by nature. Find out how skillfully you do it with the online mindset quiz.
What is Thinking Flexibility
Flexibility of thinking allows a person to look at a situation from a non-standard angle and quickly switch from solving one problem to another. Such qualities ensure high labor productivity, creativity and originality. They are measurable by analyzing human behavior in a given situation.
Agile thinking helps:
• Find a way out of difficult situations in a short time.
• Adapt to unusual, new circumstances.
• Do not lose your presence of mind during force majeure.
• See what is happening at once from several angles.
• Be creative in business as usual.
The most important thing is that the flexibility of thinking is not given to everyone at birth. This skill can be trained, developed throughout life. Even if the test to determine flexibility does not show the best results, you have the opportunity to work on yourself and improve your performance. For the development of these abilities, many special psychological techniques and exercises have been developed.
Watch this short (4 minutes) video from BBC Ideas:
Flexible thinking and growth mindset
Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck has been studying the way of thinking for over 20 years. Dweck found that two types of thinking can be distinguished: fixed thinking and growth thinking. Her latest research has shown that quality of life is more dependent on attitudes toward problems than on talent or intelligence.
“If you imagine less [for yourself], then less will be what you undoubtedly deserve.” – Debbie Millman in one of the best graduation opening speeches ever given – “Do what you love and don't stop until you get what you love. Work as hard as you can, imagine the immense … “. This advice actually reflects what is known in modern psychology as a belief system about our own abilities and potential, which fuels our behavior and predicts our success. Much of this concept is related to the work of Stanford University psychologist Carol Dweck, who outlined it in the wonderful book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success). This is an exploration of the power of our beliefs, both conscious and unconscious, and how changing even the simplest ones can significantly affect almost every aspect of our lives.
One of the most basic beliefs we have about ourselves that Dweck discovered in her research has to do with how we view our personality and how we value it. “Fixed thinking” assumes that our character, intelligence and creativity are static given that we cannot significantly change, and success is a confirmation of the presence of intelligence, an assessment of how these given correspond to the same fixed standard; striving for success and avoiding failure at all costs becomes a way of maintaining a sense of one's own mind and qualifications. On the other hand, the “growth mindset” thrives on problems and sees failure not as proof of a lack of intelligence, but as a springboard for the growth and development of our abilities. From these two ways of thinking that we display from an early age, derive our behavior, attitudes towards success and failure in professional and personal life, and ultimately our ability to be happy.
Take Mindset quiz
This mindset quiz is based and adapted from Carol S. Dweck's book "Mindset: The new psychology of success" (2006) New York, Random House Inc.
Please choose the answer for each statement which best describes you.
After answering 10 questions you will get your current score and mindset description.