Unlocking the Mentality

Mindset doesn’t change and yeah it’s very difficult to change. Mindsets are basic instincts, a long drawn process formed by sedimentation of layers the way we had perceived things in our past. One and all interchangeably used mindset, mentality or a perception are governed by our upbringing, the social, political and economical environment and is a part of our DNA. In most of cases upbringing of Kids in Indian society is under strict vigil of parents, grandparents and relatives, our upbringing methodology doesn’t encourage kids to be courageous, fearless and risk takers but sometimes molest their entities. In general context we perceive a very cautious approach for the kids, we warn them repeatedly to be cautious in whatever they do and from the very beginning we start transforming them to fearful and risk aversive individuals.

The same mindset and approaches we try to put in every task we pursue and in most of the causes we tend to more reserve and cautious then what’s really required. Basic instinct of insecurity and fear of oneself getting challenges, consequences and questions in future never leaves us; we always want to carry proofs of the past and security for the future.

I could see the primitive mindset in real action in one of my assignment wherein I was working on email application which hosted some hundred odd users. Typically we don’t abort things which are unused or have lost the context, even our houses are filled up with objects which are obsolete and might be never put into the use still we carry those things with us for years and preserve them with a possibility of future use. Household items are repaired many times even if the cost of repairs surpassing the cost of newer one just because we have emotional bonding to them, we feel everything close to our heart and believe all objects are elements of our identity.

I could see thousands of mails which had lost the context and value preserved in the mail boxes. Questions regarding the usability of those email which were generally reports and archived documents got a uniform answer “I may be asked for the report and status quo for that reason I want them to preserve”. Mail box size ran into Gigabytes and it appeared next to impossible for me to work with the giant mail boxes and bulky mail items.

After a hard time convincing the mail box owners agreed to get rid of those items but I could see the fear and insecurity that they were foreseeing with future requirement. Future equation which may or may not happen and may be different than what we perceive but still we wanted to prepare for future and carry the proof of our past because we fearful, threatened and uncertain.

Mindset hardly change and it’s difficult to change

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