The Dance of Progress: Mindset and Patience in the Digital Age
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Progress - development, advancement or improvement. Something we all seek. But do we seek it only in our minds or also with our actions?
Every day, we cast a vote for who we will become in the future with the actions we take in the present. You cannot get one without the other. However, the majority of our fundamental desires live in the confines of our mind, never to receive enough votes to become legitimate.
This all starts with a mindset, a word that gets thrown around in many different contexts but in my opinion, a person with a strong mindset is simply able to turn the ideas and thoughts generated in their mind into an objective reality, regardless of the physical and mental challenges associated with it.
Many attributes contribute to a strong mindset such as courage, determination and arguably the most important - patience. We now live in a world of instant gratification. A world where we can obtain almost any piece of information by typing in some symbols into a system which harvests and stores information in the form of 0’s and 1’s, then translates it back into the specific symbols that we are familiar with. The ability to rapidly exchange information has fundamentally changed the way we think in a way in which we expect everything to be just as fast.
The one thing that cannot be transferred with such speed is experience. We can learn from the mistakes and challenges overcome by others but until we implement those ideas in our own endeavor, we still lack the ability to efficiently do such tasks. We need challenges, the same challenges that encourage the weakness in our minds to exhaust all efforts towards convincing us to give up. With each challenge we overcome, we gain relevant experience, submit our ballot and ever so slightly, progress towards the person we want to become.
Every day, we cast a vote for who we will become in the future with the actions we take in the present. You cannot get one without the other. However, the majority of our fundamental desires live in the confines of our mind, never to receive enough votes to become legitimate.
This all starts with a mindset, a word that gets thrown around in many different contexts but in my opinion, a person with a strong mindset is simply able to turn the ideas and thoughts generated in their mind into an objective reality, regardless of the physical and mental challenges associated with it.
Many attributes contribute to a strong mindset such as courage, determination and arguably the most important - patience. We now live in a world of instant gratification. A world where we can obtain almost any piece of information by typing in some symbols into a system which harvests and stores information in the form of 0’s and 1’s, then translates it back into the specific symbols that we are familiar with. The ability to rapidly exchange information has fundamentally changed the way we think in a way in which we expect everything to be just as fast.
The one thing that cannot be transferred with such speed is experience. We can learn from the mistakes and challenges overcome by others but until we implement those ideas in our own endeavor, we still lack the ability to efficiently do such tasks. We need challenges, the same challenges that encourage the weakness in our minds to exhaust all efforts towards convincing us to give up. With each challenge we overcome, we gain relevant experience, submit our ballot and ever so slightly, progress towards the person we want to become.