smriti-mishra

Looking for a job?  My learnings: Patience is virtue, networking is king.  A quick rewind to the summer of 2020, when I was looking for the perfect job for me. I networked and approached people with whom I wanted to work with. Most replied, some didn’t. Some were looking for my skills, fixed the interview. Some went well, […]

Stanford psychologist Carol Dweck’s (2008) work on mindsets marked a paradigm shift in the field of positive psychology.  According to her a mindset is a self-perception or “self-theory” that people hold about themselves. Dweck’s educational work centers on the distinction between “fixed” and “growth” mindsets. According to Dweck, “In a fixed mindset, people believe their […]

So let’s take a minute now and think if we really can grow in the comfort zone, and if you still are in your comfort zone, what is it? How is it not letting you grow? To me personally, as I was an introvert growing up, I always refrained from trying anything – I used to go to school, come back home and repeat. See – there is no room I gave myself to grow. I was subconsciously keeping myself for doing anything I definitely was capable of.