Do successful people and unsuccessful people (generally) have different mindsets?

[Evilronald]

I think successful people have a goal or goals and make changes in their life to pursue that goal or goals. Unsuccessful people are reactionary and typically have either unrealistic goals or no goals at all. A healthy balance of acknowledging your failures and learning from them but also being able to move on is what sets apart a successful vs unsuccessful person. A successful person doesn’t compare themselves to other people but to who they were yesterday. If every day you can say you’ve grown as a person, then you’re more successful than most people out there.

 

[He Who Points And Laughs]

One type challenges themselves, the other wants to relax.

 

[Shadfan666xxx000]

A successful mindset is mainly one based around recognizing your own strengths and weaknesses and then building goals based in them, either for the sake of capitalizing on your strengths or building on your weaknesses. From there, it then involves recognizing the lifestyle you want for yourself. Not everyone wants to be or is suited to be a high flying executive or academic but might better be suited as tradesmen or service workers of some sort and might enjoy raising a family in a community as a higher form of success for themselves over working to death for a flashy standard.

 

[Dimetrodon]

Successful people tend to be more motivated/driven overall. The main thing is that they're not afraid of both working hard and taking calculated risks with their resources to advance themselves in their career or business/investments even if there's a significant chance of failure. Average joes tend to complain more about having to work and have more trouble stepping outside their comfort zone when it comes to potential opportunities. That being said, being motivated to work hard and take risks to advance your station in life doesn't necessarily guarantee that you'll succeed, it's just a pre-requisite to exploiting opportunities that you may have otherwise slept on or would've found too dangerous to pursue with a more risk-averse mindset.

Not to mention that intelligence and attitudes towards self improvement are also prerequisites.

 

[???]

Success depends on how you define it.

Someone who makes 6 times the minimum wage isn't necessarily successful if they spend half of that money on costs that could be reduced or eliminated with little effort or planning. Someone who makes a third of minimum wage or doesn't work at all and leeches off the government is a success if they have no costs and a large family (the latter being my standard of success, though the idea stands up with other standards of success).

Being successful is largely the result of emotionality, outlook, and intelligence. If you remain cold in the face of obstacles, you aren't easily overwhelmed by them. If you try to find ways to use setbacks to benefit yourself, then they cease being setbacks. Doing both these things requires careful reflection, a flexible and empathetic mind (to see things from an outside perspective and incorporate that into your mental toolset), and a lack of narcissism - if you are narcissistic you default to a woe-is-me mindset and are too busy attention-whoring to get shit done.

People who are internally driven seem more successful by my standards than those who need outside motivation.