I love this Pinterest post I found. I think it is a very good example on retraining your brain from a fixed mindset to a growth mindset. I like the idea of learning from your mistakes and embracing challenges instead of feeling a sense of gratification from solving easy problems. I have not heard of Carol Dweck prior to the course however, listening to her speech has made me in agreeance with her.
When I graduated High School, I did not put any effort in my classes. I did homework before class started and I did the bare minimum. Somehow, I still made pretty decent grades, which should really say something about our public educational system. Unfortunately, my grade school career did not properly prepare me for the rigorous workload during my freshman year. I barely made all D's and I gave up on school altogether after my first semester. My failures swallowed me whole and like the students in Dweck's study, I ran away from difficulty.
After a string on meaningless jobs, I realized that living paycheck to paycheck was not how I wanted to live. I knew that college was the only way I would be able to have an actual career, something I was passionate about. I took a pretty decent amount of maturing to have this revelation, but when I did, it opened up the possibilities of getting to that growth mindset. I would definitely be more interested in this topic throughout the semester. After all, there is always room for improvement.
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| Personal photo of Jackson turned into a meme. |
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