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Mindset Types Contrasted and Compared
How our adaptive and maladaptive mindsets affect our thoughts, emotions and behaviors
In a previous article I discussed the power of mindsets. In this one I define different mindset types and compare two primary groups of mindsets: adaptive and maladaptive mindset types.
Primary Mindsets Types
Mindsets can be broadly categorized in two primary groups defined as adaptive (sometimes called “growth”) and maladaptive (sometimes called “fixed”).
Adaptive mindsets foster greater (short and/or long term) life satisfaction and wellness because they are characterized by rational patterns of thinking. They promote beneficial behaviors and supportive emotions.
Maladaptive mindsets diminish or prevent (short and/or long term) life satisfaction and wellness because they are characterized by irrational/faulty patterns of thinking such as cognitive biases (thinking errors) and cognitive distortions (erroneous thought patterns). They promote unhelpful or destructive behaviors and trigger excessive, inappropriate and/or harmful emotions.
Mindsets Subgroups
Within each of these two primary groups are three subgroups that define the characteristics and effects of…
