07 Mar Mentally tough people do these 10 things…
via Inc.com
“How do I become mentally strong?” originally appeared on Quora–the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world.
Answer by Dean Yeong, entrepreneur and writer on DeanYeong.com, on Quora:
I don’t think mental toughness is something you are born with, and I strongly believe it’s something we can all learn along the journey. After studying many examples of successful people and top performers, here are the 10 traits people with high mental toughness have in common.
- Delayed gratification. Most people fail because they give in to temptations or give up to challenges too quickly. Mentally strong people understand how to work hard and contribute more now before they even think about returns. Psychologist Walter Mischel proved the ability of delayed gratification contributes to one’s success later in life in his marshmallow experiment held in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
- Embrace constraints. We want to believe we have total freedom, and we think more freedom makes us better off. The truth is the opposite. When some people naively want to have all the freedom, happy people embrace constraints. When they want all the glory, successful people embrace failures. When they want to be perfect, mentally strong people embrace imperfections.
- Never seek for permission. They own themselves responsible. They never seek for permission and authority. They make their own way. If they made mistakes and hit a roadblock, they suck it up. They don’t control things that can’t be controlled–such as money and people. But besides those, they are always in control, especially of their own state of mind…
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