This week was super hectic for me. I was doing a few things the very first time in a much bigger judgemental environment. Besides being in the centre of an observational lens, I was also carrying the huge expectation of people around me, who had explicitly placed their trust in my ability to pull off the event. In, my view placing trust along with the freedom to execute a task is the fastest way to raise a sense of responsibility for the doer.

My experience tells me that having a ‘Learner’s Mindset’ is the backbone of any intellectually spinning activity and it provides a huge advantage. It helps you in optimising your performance and keeps you level-headed in the game.

The brain itself does not do anything except fulfilling its responsibility to regulate the budget of the human body. As we grow, this very brain turns into a mind when we start identifying human emotions and catalogue them in various categories ( The Secret Life Of Brain). But the onus of developing the mindsets to deal with problems of varying complexity in your chosen environment will always be on you and only you.

Beginner’s Mindset and ‘Learner’s Mindset’ are the two best approaches to handle most dynamic situations whether they are occurring on personal or professional fronts.

You get into a ‘Learner’s Mindset’ only when your ego doesn’t get in the way. Although you know you’re doing the right things but by adopting this mindset, you are very much keeping the possibilities of new learnings live.

There are always going to be people who may carry a different mindset than we are. Having a Learner’s Mindset helps us to absorb the maximum new impressions from any intellectually stimulating environment. I always thrive on such challenges and rejoice in the opportunity to learn from these events and that’s what precisely I did.