An Infinite Mindset

Hello everyone,

So I’m going back and starting to write out a lot of my podcast episodes because, hey, I love them, even almost 2 years later. And sometimes, lots of podcast episodes can be overwhelming to catch up on. Everyone loves a nice read on a boring commute too 🙂

Today’s writing is about one of the first episodes I ever did on the podcast back in May 2020. It’s all about living with an infinite mindset. I first came across the concept through Simon Sinek’s book on it, with the same title as this piece.

A lot of us in todays world play finite games. We look for outcomes all the time. Measurable’s. Legacies! It’s not our fault. We are programmed to in this current society. If you’re not winning, you’re losing right? But this applies unhealthy amounts of pressure on us to live and endless life of targets and goals. In order to look back on our life and be happy with the outcomes we’ve got? I don’t think so.

This is where living an infinite mindset comes in. What if there was no end? No end to any of the tasks, games or life you were living. If you want to be really blunt about it, none of what you’re doing really matters anyway in the grand scheme of things. The impact it will have on the world? Nada. But this isn’t about existentialism. This is about how freeing and liberating it is to view the world infinitely. It will benefit your mental health drastically.

Let’s take an example everyone can relate to: fitness. None of us are as fit as we want to be. Maybe we’re a bit lazier, maybe we’re injured or maybe we’re working towards a big goal and not there yet. On that point, what if I concluded that none of this matters? What if you had a free pass or clean slate for the rest of your life? Hey, if you’re fat and lazy, you know it’ll burden your future self. So instead of trying to lose 5 stone in 6 months, why don’t you try to be a healthy person for the rest of your life. The peace of mind at the end of your life knowing that you’ve turned yourself around and probably increased the quality of your life since you made that decision.

These lines may seem blurred but try to remove any finite goals from your mind that exist in your life today. How does it make you feel? Do they really matter? What if you flipped any of these goals into infinite goals?

The last point I’ll leave you with is how an infinite mindset impacts upon our identity. We become prouder of who we are. We stop living our lives through a comparison lens. We aren’t living to survive and strive, we’re living it to last forever and enjoy the things that make us happy.

So some questions to finish. Where are you going with your life? Are you living with a finish line? How are you going to change your mindset to impact on your identity and therefore become proud of who you are?

Leave a comment or message me with any thoughts or answers and I hope you enjoyed it 🙂