If you feel like you are stuck with your career, and there is no further hope for you no matter how hard you struggle for it, then it is your mental attitudes that need an upgrade. Successful people think differently from their average colleagues. But if you think being competitive is their only personal traits, you are wrong. To be a person that can get respects from the people surrounding him/her requires more being a winner in every possible competition.
If you are a student preparing yourself for entering the professional world, this article is also for you. In school, the opportunity to be responsible for yourself might not be available until high school. Even then, the school still need to inform parents about every misdeed a student commits. The professional world is much more different than that.
Respect is Earned, Not Given
In the office, you can notice people who like to be servile and obsequious. They are not entirely bad personal traits, but when you maintain them all the time, your ambition will not be taken seriously by the people around you.
Be obedient to the supervisors when it comes to a procedure is necessary, but outside of the job, you should maintain your solid personality.
It is also a proper manner if you respect another person only when they treat you the same. When you sense disrespect from a colleague, you do not need to behave similarly to them. Instead, you can give them a verbal warning first. And when it does not work, you must hold your stance and confront them. But the confrontation must be still within the lawful and civil conduct. We are not talking about violence, here.
Transferring Skills
Most successful people know how to acquire new skills based on the previously learned ones. It gives them the ability to learn faster and better than their competitors.
To understand this matter, we must discuss a concrete example. For instance, you are good at swimming. You know that for a swimmer to swim fast, his/her every movement must be efficient in creating the propelling force. Insufficient power or a poor posture will be only a waste of energy.
In swimming, it is also vital to pay attention to the order of the movements. If all the propelling body parts move at the same time, it is not going to create any meaningful moving force.
When we understand how swimming works, and we are faced with how a company organized, we can make a swimmer as an analogy. All parts should do their job as planned. If one supersedes the others, the company’s projects can be in jeopardy.
In this example, we already learn how leadership should work in a company. You can apply the same principle to acquire other professional skills.
Imbuing Meaning to Typical Things
We all see apples falling from the tree everyday, but only Newton perceived gravity. Such is the analogy of the art of interpretation. Successful people manage to sense opportunities when the other cannot. As a result, they get a big win in the least likely situation.
To acquire such a mental attitude, one must stay informed and trained to see things from different perspectives. In other words, you must read a lot!
Our mind can be sharp only if we train it to think. But repeating information and conforming to the status quo is not what we seek. We have to approach information with critical thinking and creativity.