Mindset is the key to success. Fixed and Growth Mindsets have patterns within their actions that can contribute to their learning. Mindset itself, is a theory in which there are two types of learning divisions, Fixed Mindset and Growth Mindset. Those with a fixed mindset repeatedly get discouraged when faced with new tasks and fail to educate themselves. Those with a Growth Mindset also have a certain pattern, but instead of their learning pattern staying the same or going “downhill” their thinking and challenge-facing strategies are unique. The reason behind this, is that when they are struck with difficulty, they will learn from failure and excel in their achievements. Carol Dweck, a psychologist from Stanford University, studied and discovered the Mindset theory. She mentioned in the article The Effort Effect,“Failure is information—we label it as failure, but it’s more like, ‘This didn’t work, I’m a problem solver, and I’ll try something else’.” Repeated and consistent encouragement and academic tutoring has helped students focus on effort and hard work, which can spark the start of a growth mindset. This shows that patterns are a huge part of achievement. Carol Dweck also noted that personality can be changed only if they want to or they allow it. She advised, ”Changing mind-sets is not like surgery”(page 4). In other cases, she meant that changing one’s view from fixed to growth mindset cannot happen quickly, or automatically, it takes deep thought and realization to survey what is actually happening inside your brain. Constant determination will always help you succeed, as long as you let yourself reach your full potential. Contribution in many ways can be found throughout the Mindset theory. For example, one way contribution is tied to mindset, is how failure contributes to achievement. In the video “Growth Mindset Animation”, they remark that “Failure is the most essential step to success”(2:50). This context relates to real life, especially to those with fixed mindsets. People with fixed mindsets are terrified of failure like stated before, so they never succeed. It’s like trying to make a pie without a filling, you can try it but it won’t improve your skills. In the article “The Effort Effect” Carol Dweck exclaimed that ”The key, she found, isn’t ability; it’s whether you look at ability as something inherent that needs to be demonstrated or as something that can be developed.”(paragraph #3, page 1). The way you interpret ability contributes to your learning habits, say you have a test tomorrow, but you already think you are “well trained” so you do not bother to study. The next day you take the test and get a low score. You basically fooled yourself into thinking that you were well trained due to the fact of you being advanced. Mindset is not only a two way road perhaps, it’s significance stands within your own mind and your experiences with trial-and-error, your mindset will lead you through your entire life, so you should not take it lightly, but yet take it as something that defines your intelligence of the world. Our visual representation of mindset contributes to our visual presentation by showing two different sailboats on a windy day. One sailboat is green, portraying the growth mindset while the other is red, standing for fixed mindset. They both face a problem in which their sail tears and in the middle stage they both interpret the challenge differently. The green sailboat decides to take matters into their own hands and overcome their problem so they can learn from it. The people on the boat can be seen patching up the hole and continue to sail across the ocean to meet their destination. The red boat however, seems to be stuck and does not know what to do. The people are panicked and decide to call for help so they can go back to shore, showing that they are weak in overcoming difficulties. As for the ocean, that represents a sea of knowledge and learning, the boats are “Sailing to Success”. The green boat is the one who sails all the way to its destination.
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"I think, therefore I am." What does this mean? (5-8 sentences)
To me this quote means that if you don't think, you are basically not human. When you think it makes you, you. It makes you a person or an individual because everyone is different. For example, when you think of something you decide what you are going to think about which makes what you are thinking your opinion and not someone else's opinion. In my opinion if you think, you know you are a human or you exist. Basically, when you think you are existing in life and you are describing yourself as a thinker. To make it easier to understand you can say, I think, therefore I am me and I am existing. The quote describes a human saying that when they think they are themselves. |
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