With the eye-opening discoveries made by Carol Dweck, I can describe my mental status thus helping me to better understand myself as a student at DCCC as well as in my personal life. She describes, kids with “’fixed mindsets’ stop trying when confronted with a challenge because they've convinced themselves that they're not good at math or writing or whatever the subject is.” Then she describes the second mindset as “’growth mindset’ – the belief that the brain is like a muscle that can grow stronger through hard work.” In her own website, she even explains what she has researched and her discoveries of these two mind sets. The one that best fits me is having a “growth mindset”. My growth mindset has guided me as a student to learn and has affected my abilities as a student.
I do believe my intelligence can grow to at least a certain extent with practice and effort. On that note, this has led me to overcome difficulties in my college work and carve the techniques needed to succeed in my academic progressions. Forwarding my attitude in a progressive manner, my knowledge of my ability in making breakthroughs in a colligative respect has proceeded over threats against my intellectual prosperity. For example, in my Spanish class, there is a lot to learn in such a short period with tests and quizzes almost every week. With a fixed mindset, my ability to defeat this speedbump would stagnate my motivation thus have me escape from the problem without endeavor. However, my acuity and willpower thrusts me to budget my time wisely and apply effort to the material needed to comprehend extensively. With time management and self-discipline, just about anything can be accomplish thus my growth-mindset has drawn me to accomplish what a person with a fixed-mindset wouldn’t do. Now the argument could be made that mindset isn’t really important but it is the way our education system is set up as Alfie Con argues in his article, “The perils of ‘Growth Mindset’ education: Why we’re trying to fix our kids when we should be fixing the system”. He pretty much says that having a mindset “will get you only so far” and must go beyond mindsets then focus on structure and the reason for doing projects. The problems with this is that it’s a copout. It is devoid of any real substance and mainly based on subjective thoughts with barely any evidence to support his claims. His article is mostly comprised of insipid pap. The drivel he typed is mainly derived of unenlightened ramblings that continue to dribble on long enough to suffer from finger ache from scrolling down his endless, lengthy tirade. Besides this one particular author, anyone can argue that having a certain mindset is unimportant but the strategies used outside of mindsets is important. This can be true to a certain extent; however, a certain mindset needs to be established in order to better strategize the skills and techniques used in the academic atmosphere. In conclusion to all of this, we as a collective species can learn and grow mentally and the best way to learn this is from experience. If you don’t believe that having a growth-mindset wouldn’t help you in an academic environment, at least give it a try. Test out the hypothesis and experiment to see if you can find any evidence to this hypothesis. It may not work for everybody because I do feel that it CAN help. At least for most people who are struggling to get through school whether it is kindergarten or college. It has really helped to set forth the accomplishments I’ve made and can help you as well. Start by informing yourself about the different mindsets through research and even possibly buying or checking out Carol Dweck’s book, “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”. Maybe watch some YouTube videos about it and listen to what other people have experienced with it. Then practice to overcome your challenges with effort. Through research and exercise of your brain by certain skills such as reading and judgement, you can see to it that your academic level grows and you become mentally stronger as a person. Going through college, especially is tough at times but if you apply a growth mindset, you can bust through it and celebrate your success. Carol Dweck’s discoveries have helped me to explain how I achieve my intellectual work and maybe her discoveries can explain yours and by that I wish good luck to you.
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