This episode is about the Transformative Journey of an Individual from Victim to Victor. It talks about three mindsets viz.,
- Victim Mindset
- Survivor Mindset
- Thriver Mindset
with real life examples.
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Speaker 1: Welcome to Mindset Growth podcast. I am Malika Murali, your host.
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Speaker 1: Have you ever felt like life was just happening to you?
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Speaker 1: And you were simply a victim of circumstances. Maybe you
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Speaker 1: went through a tough situation, like losing a job ending
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Speaker 1: a relationship or facing a health issue
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Speaker 1: during those times, it's easy to get stuck in a
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Speaker 1: victim mindset where you feel powerless and think why me. However,
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Speaker 1: there is an amazing mindset shift that can happen when
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Speaker 1: you make the choice to move from victim to survivor
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Speaker 1: to what I call being a thriver. This transformative journey
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Speaker 1: is one of the most powerful you can experience in life.
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Speaker 1: Let's start by defining what I mean by these three mindsets.
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Speaker 1: A victim mindset is when you see yourself as a
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Speaker 1: powerless person and at the mercy of whatever life throws
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Speaker 1: at you, you get stuck in your thinking and struggle
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Speaker 1: to move forward. A survivor mindset is when you get
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Speaker 1: through a difficult situation but still carry battle scores and
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Speaker 1: the victim mentality about what happened to you. You survived
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Speaker 1: it but don't try.
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Speaker 1: A thriver is someone who faces a challenge Head on
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Speaker 1: finds lessons and growth in the struggle and comes out
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Speaker 1: better and stronger than before. You don't just survive you thrive.
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Speaker 1: Let's take an example to know about these mindsets in detail.
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Speaker 1: Imagine three people who all went through a difficult divorce person.
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Speaker 1: A is stuck in the victim mindset. They constantly complain
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Speaker 1: about how their ex did them wrong play the model
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Speaker 1: and struggle to move forward in life after the split
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Speaker 1: person B is in the survivor mindset. They made it
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Speaker 1: through the divorce but hold resentment, struggle with self confidence
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Speaker 1: and still define themselves by the painful experience. Years later.
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Speaker 1: Now person c took the thriver mentality, though deeply hurt,
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Speaker 1: they learned from the experience gained self awareness about what
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Speaker 1: went wrong and emerged more resilient with the new perspective
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Speaker 1: on what matters most in a relationship they thrived.
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Speaker 1: So how do you make the shift from victim to
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Speaker 1: Survivor to Thriver? It starts with taking radical responsibility for
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Speaker 1: your life instead of playing the blame game, Own your
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Speaker 1: story and your choices. Next reframe your mindset from focusing
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Speaker 1: on your pain to being a student of your struggle.
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Speaker 1: What lessons can you take away? How can you grow?
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Speaker 1: Adopting a growth mindset is the key.
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Speaker 1: You then need to purposefully choose thoughts, words and actions
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Speaker 1: that empower you rather than keep you stuck in victimhood.
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Speaker 1: Watch yourself talk finally take inspired action from the place
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Speaker 1: of personal power and wisdom gained through your experience. Use
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Speaker 1: your struggle to thrive and live your greatest life. I
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Speaker 1: hope hearing about this journey from
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Speaker 1: to victor, from victimhood to thriving, inspires you today. We all
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Speaker 1: face challenges and obstacles in life. But you always get
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Speaker 1: to choose. Will you stay stuck as a victim or
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Speaker 1: will you bravely transform and ultimately thrive? The choice is yours.
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Speaker 1: Choose to be the author of your life, not the victim.
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Speaker 1: Thanks for listening.