How to Upgrade Your Mindset for Success

Overcome underlying beliefs that limit your views.

Gustavo Razzetti
7 min readNov 4, 2019
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Success and happiness are all about mindset. What you think you become.

Your mindset doesn’t just affect how you see the world. It shapes your responses and actions even if you don’t realize it.

Developing the right mindset is crucial to succeeding in anything. Here’s how to upgrade yours.

What is a mindset?

A mindset is a frame of mind. It’s the sum of beliefs, opinions, and thoughts that you formed about the world and yourself. Think of your mindset as a lens through which you filter reality.

Our education, religion, upbringing, and experience shape our beliefs and thoughts. That’s why our mindset is a fixed state of mind — we have our mind “set.” Thus, determine how you perceive and react to specific events.

Napoleon Hill said, “There are no limitations to the mind except those we acknowledge. Both poverty and riches are the offspring of thought.”

Mindsets can change, but they tend to change slowly. It’s easier to correct our attitude than our mindset.

An attitude is a short-term reaction shaped by our mindset. It is a settled way of thinking or feeling about someone or…

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Gustavo Razzetti

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