Mindsets are critical to optimizing your life experience—self-control, relationship intelligence, and resilience. A mindset is a mental state or attitude that impacts your perception, influences your emotions, guides your thoughts, and directs your actions.
A mindset tells you what, when, and how to do something without asking permission. This is an amazing fact. Knowing how and what your mindset is when going through everyday life’s ups and downs is vital to keeping yourself on track.
The great philosopher and leading thinker in the 19th century, William James, also called the “Father of American Psychology,” provided the following statement on this subject matter.
“The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”
In the world of Relationship Intelligence, altering your attitude of mind and, therefore, altering your life revolves around knowing the significance of three separate mindsets. Each mindset is critical in learning how to turn conflict into connection. Each mindset is powerful on its own. Together, they become immensely effective in managing solvable and unsolvable problems.
The three mindsets built into the r.IQ model of human potential include:
- Intentionality – moving forward with design and connection in mind
- Curiosity – keeping an open mind and filling it with what is not yet known
- Flexibility – adjusting your mind forward; having options so connections don’t break