This was the first time that I have heard about the Growth Mindset, but this attitude is something that I've noticed for a while. People who are excited about the prospect of learning for its own sake are more successful learners. In my own academic pursuits, I am often in the Growth Mindset. I enjoy a challenge, and I seek to learn new things all the time. Many people think that they don't have a particular talent and they can never be good at a particular task. I prefer to think that there is nothing I am inherently bad at, I just haven't refined my skill yet. This way of thinking is very exciting because everything is an opportunity to grow as a person. I can also relate to the
Giant Hairball of School. School often becomes drudgery and I work only to get the grade. However, I find that the motivation of grades helps me to push through the boring bits and allows me to get experience that I might not have been able to gain on my own.
I particularly like the reading and writing challenges in the list of
Growth Mindset Challenges. I like how it puts the Growth Mindset into practice by changing the learning environment and embracing differences.
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Hi Carey! Since I already commented on your introduction in a past assignment I will comment on your Growth Mindset. I totally agree with you that people who are more excited about learning actually learn better and get better grades as an outcome. I figured this out from on of my friends in my sophomore year. While a lot of the students were just drudging through the course, he was always excited to learn. This translated into him getting the best results on his tests. I have tried to incorporate this into my approach to everything.
ReplyDeleteI really like the point that you make when you explain that you aren’t inherently terrible at anything because with practice that skill will grow. I think this is something a lot of people have a hard time believing, most likely because they grew up in an environment in which mistakes are seen as failures rather than learning opportunities.
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