Emotional management fulfill mindset for gen Z

 In order to finish this subject in English for Business, I’m trying to write this feature semi opinion to deliver and formulate my thoughts into words about emotional management and fulfilling the mindset for Gen z. First, we have to regulate and know what emotion itself is, second we have to know how to manage what comes out from our emotions, and third what is mindset and also what is correlation between mindset and happiness. 

According to the American Psychological Association (APA), emotion is defined as “a complex reaction pattern, involving experiential, behavioral, physiological elements.” Emotions are how individuals deal with matters or situations they find personally significant. Based on this explanation, we know that emotions related to our experiences which would lead to our behavior then as result would affect our physiology. In other words, it means the fact that emotions have their own role which regulate our system of cognition that usually separate into three paths of these following, first our cognitive, second our affective and third our psychomotor aspect. 

After knowing these facts about emotions we should realize that sometimes our actions are governed by feelings which often turn into reactions that might be not necessary, and then, it is called reactionary responses. That’s what actually happened to most people. But in this case, I try to put myself as a subject who has to deal with those emotions when something happens out of my control. The question is how to manage emotions when something out of control happens in life? First, it’s obvious we have to look into a distant sense of how much it affects us as an individual. Second, the answer for the question is by knowing our priority and affections/risk towards something to another thing. Third step is usually we use critical thinking and risk management to control it. But then what exactly and precisely do we try to manage and control? It’s our mindset. Mindset theory (Dweck & Legget, 1988) describes core assumptions about the malleability of personal qualities. The theory represents a social-cognitive approach that stems from goals and goal-oriented behavior and relates to individual differences in beliefs and values. mindset theory informs how we understand responses to challenges or setbacks. Early efforts to understand how a person responds to a challenge revealed two patterns of performance: mastery-oriented and helpless responses. The helpless response is characterized by avoidance of challenges and difficulty facing obstacles. In contrast, the mastery-oriented pattern involves seeking challenging tasks and persistence after failure.

With looking into this theory we have to set our mind to a proper condition of state-being or our mental-state because if we want to focus it refers to the pattern of performance which leads us to mastery-oriented mindset. Mindset theory organizes our capacity beliefs into two types of mindset. First, shifting mindset and second for growth mindset. What is the difference between them? For the first one it is when the mind changes from one way of thinking to a different way of thinking. If a person thinks mostly negative thoughts, and then gradually starts to think mostly positive thoughts, that person is considered to have experienced a mindset shift. Then, this shifting mindset will stimulate us to grow. Growth mindset is an incremental theory of intelligence. This is a belief that intelligence can be cultivated and developed through effort and experience, regardless of differences in aptitude, interest, or personality and higher academic achievement, taking more difficult courses, and college retention have all been linked to a growth mindset. A person with a growth mindset would endorse the statement “I believe I can change my intelligence.” It also happens and is linked  to a person’s mindset which manages their emotions and tells her/himself with the statement “I believe I can change my life.” a person like this usually has positive mental attitudes such as developing strategic use with critical thinking to regulate the set of steps to be a better person from himself yesterday. Last but not least, how all these aspects lead us into happiness.

What is happiness? According to the book happiness project written by Gretchen Rubin, quoted a Greek philosopher Aristotle, states that happiness is to be “summum bonum” or the chief good. Even so, Blaise Pascal argued, “All men seek happiness. This is without exception. Whatever different means they employ, they all tend to this end.” But  what does happiness itself mean for me? It’s when you find a meaningful life. What’s that mean? It means that I’m not see my happiness as fulfilling my desire or my pleasures as a priority because it was ego. But I transcend my happiness towards other people's happiness, joy, and pleasure. For example, for me, when my girlfriend is proud of what i’ve been through to make her a future wife, we clearly know and realized that our relationship has not permission yet or let’s say denial by her parents that’s a meaning or art of loving. Then, when I arrived home from campus, my niece called, smiling, running and hugging me. That's a beautiful meaning and that was happiness.