Growth Mindset Week 10: The Huff

One of the biggest cases of where having a growth mindset is helpful is when you are learning to play a sport. I keep this in mind every time that I  go and play basketball with my friends. Even though I might not be the fastest or the best at shooting, I remember that it is a team game for every time that I mess up and turn the ball over, that is a learning opportunity and I know what not to do for next time. One thing that really helps is that I always play with friends so they know what to expect from me and how to play to each other's strengths and weaknesses.
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Week 8 Growth Mindest

For this week's growth mindset post I chose to look at the cats because who wouldn't want to look at cats honestly. I particularly liked this picture below. I think it is particularly analogous to writers block. Sometimes you get in one mindset are unsure how to proceed. Sometimes taking a break is better than continuing on.




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Week 7: Growth Mindset

My personal motto, is "A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step". Personally, I like this quote a lot as a lot of the time I have problems starting things but after I do, I am able to work pretty efficiently to get it done. This especially applies to getting up in the mornings. I really enjoy my bed and it is very comfortable but if I muster up the energy to get out of bed at 7 versus just staying in bed and sleeping until 10 I feel like I've had a much more productive day.

The Growth Mindset

Before watching this video and learning more about Carol Dweck I had never heard of her before or even really heard the term "growth mindset" before. The concept, however, is not one that is foreign to me and one that has been instilled in my by various teachers, coaches and even friends through out the years. I think this mindset was particularly evident in my AP Stats class where the teacher did not really care what you came into the class knowing, but was very insistent that if you put your mind to it, you could learn everything that you needed to know. He was a big believer in this growth mindset and that there is no reason that somebody should not be able to grow their mind if they put the work in. With this unique approach to learning, he, unsurprisingly, had some of the best test scores in the school.

This semester I would like to have a similar approach to school and this class. I plan on taking the MCAT this semester and I need to study for that but at the same time I am not as stressed as some of my other friends studying for it as I know that as long as I put the time and work in, I am confident I will end up doing fine. I like to take that same approach to many things that I do. Even though there are some things might quite literally be out of my reach, like being a professional basketball player, I know that at most things I can work hard at and at least become competent at them. I think this is a big part in the growth mindset.      

Growing your mind by exercising it

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