Success Or Failure is caused by Mental Attitude: Our mental attitude plays a significant role in determining our success or failure in life. Although our circumstances and opportunities play a huge role – the attitude leaves its own mark. We can find opportunities in our challenges or vice versa. It is never easy, but I think our lives are filled with challenges. The best thing we can all do is to find the most effective route to achieve our goals in life.
In this article, we will talk about the meaning of mental attitude and its impact on our everyday life. We all know how important perseverance is for success. Some of the common messages you’ll come across while understanding this quote are:
- A positive and growth oriented attitude helps us embrace challenges better
- It gives us a better perspective and insight into our problems
- A negative mindset creates fear and clouds judgement
- It helps to see failures as opportunities to grow and work through problems
Success or failure is caused by Mental Attitude Meaning
Sometimes, we place too much importance on skills and technical ability. However, our mental attitude helps us to learn these skills and develop the necessary expertise. This quote is all about refining our mental attitude to achieve our goals. In this section, I want to refer to the beauty of mental attitude that can help us target larger challenges.
We can develop our skills with a good attitude to serve our needs.
What is mental attitude?
Mental attitude refers to our mindset, beliefs, thoughts, and perspectives. It defines the outlook and approaches we take while dealing with various situations, challenges, and opportunities. The mental attitude can be positive or negative, optimistic or pessimistic, growth-oriented or fixed. Training our mindset can help us define our approach and life a healthier lifestyle.
The mindset influences our thoughts, emotions, behaviour, and actions, shaping our responses to circumstances. It influences the overall well-being and success in different aspects of life. A positive mental attitude has optimism, resilience, a growth mindset, and a proactive approach. Whereas a negative mental attitude has pessimism, self-doubt, a fixed mindset, and a reactive approach. We can cultivate mental attitude through self-awareness, mindfulness, personal development, and adopting empowering beliefs and perspectives.
Here are some articles about improving mindset and mental attitude:
https://news.stanford.edu/2015/09/21/dweck-mindset-ednews
What defines success or failure?
Well, then what is the truth? What is the ultimate recipe for success which never fails? I’m not sure if anyone knows a foolproof answer. But the beauty is in continued perseverance and learning from each experience. Whether it is success or failure, each gives us an opportunity to learn from. If we’re keen and clever enough, we can keep improving and becoming better. Ultimately, this is where success lies. Continued progress can achieve bigger results than perfection itself which might take forever!
- Persistence and perseverance
- Some say it is sheer talent and no one else has access to that. Honestly, even if this were true, I would not like to believe it. I’d rather believe in a lie that makes us strive hard for a compelling future than accept a poor fate.
- Resources, people and luck
No single thing causes your success. It is a combination of these factors which gets you close to your dreams. This comes back to how we deal with failure.
Every little thing we believe in can be true. It creates the fabric of our thought and hence decides our actions. We got to decide very carefully as to what we let influence us.And if you look at the quote carefully, all it says is the same.
“Success or failure is caused more by mental attitude than by mental capacity”
Walter Scott
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This is such a wise quote Vinay. Indeed, one’s attitude contours one’s capacity and gives it a positive push!
Thank you Maitreni :). I agree, attitude largely defines our capacity and the excitement to get things done :)
Great post! I too believe that aa little bit of each ingredient sums up to success! And like us said ,we decide influences us :)
Thank you Vinitha :). Indeed, every little bit adds, the little bit of anger, the little bit of emotion behind it, also the little bit of despair and hope and above all the spirit and the heart to continue even when things seem a bit down and not completely in our favour.
Hi Dear,
Really awesome post indeed here ! actually i really love to read inspirational article and books so i found your blog from indibloggers community really very helpful blog .
keep writing and share these kind of inspirational stories and guide.
Thanks :)
Thank you Sanu. It makes us feel really good that we are able to connect and actually be of some help :). It kinda fulfils the purpose of the posts :). Hoping to see more of you over here :)..
Cheers mate.
Absolutely true. Love this quote and great post indeed, Vinay :)
Thank you Purba. Happy you liked it :)
This is one of my favourite quotes :-) I firmly believe that mindset and mental ability play a great role in terms of success…a great post, Vinay… :-)
Thank you Maniparna. I love this one too, it kinda makes us believe in the impossible and for a poet, it kinda rekindles the poetic spirit romanticism which drives us all ahead.
Absolutely true Vinay. Talent or capacity imparts ability. The right attitude channelizes the ability. Finally. attitude beats talent if talent doesn’t work.
Indeed Somali. I think the talent bit is highly overrated in this country and sometimes highly overrated in other countries as well. It is like an idea being given more importance than its execution. Talent is simply a potential energy. Only attitude can make it kinetic and functional :)
Absolutely..everything is in the mind..
Failure is simply another opportunity given to us to do things in a different but successful perspective!
True Sunita :). I think failure success are mere perspectives. What we have in the end are outcomes, the outcomes we like and the outcomes we don’t like. And looking at it very objectively, it just means that if there is something out there we don’t like, we got to get out there and do what we really like :)