Jack Roche CDM

 Source: https://fs.blog/carol-dweck-mindset/  This week I learned more about Carol Dweck the doctor who coined the phrase Growth Mindset. I learned this week exactly what constitutes as a fixed mindset. People with a fixed mindset avoid challenges, give up at obstacles, see effort as fruitless, ignore useful negative feedback and feel threatened by the success of others. However, people with growth mindset seam to take a lot of these elements in stride and try to become better from each one, for example they are ready to embrace challenge, persist in the face of setbacks and so on. I feel this is a very important mindset to have in college and general life, there's no one who can be perfect all the time or in this case "smart", everyone has their own unique challenges and strengths but these challenges are belittled and these strengths can always be enhanced with a growth mindset and some hard work. 

Source: https://www.mindsetworks.com/science/  This week I learned about Dr Dweck who coined the term "Growth Mindset" as well as the experiments made in fiske elementary school that showed a growth mindset can result in a much higher effort from a student body at large, which in turn can result in better grades. A growth mindset can also be something that can be caused in a brain, deviating from a fixed mindset, which is when someone instead of being given praise for their hard work and effort is instead given praise as being smart. A result of this is when students underperform or fail tests, those with fixed mindsets are defeated by this news and can become upset or give up on the task at hand, meanwhile those with a growth mindset can be found to preform admirable better on a second test, being able to learn and grow more from their failure than their fixed counterpart.  I find these traits admirable, the ability to be able to bounce back from any certain failure and ...

  I believe a growth mindset from the research I’ve done is a very good thing to have not only for life and from a long age but especially to have in studies and future careers. Instead of falling and believing a task can only be succeeded or failed in, I do believe it is better to have a middle ground where you can try and you can simply “not be there yet”. I like to think I have had this mindset for a long time, from a very young age and I like to believe it has helped me a lot dealing with stress throughout my life, I’m fact I’ve never really thought about it until now, I simply thought when I failed things I simply didn’t stress over it as much as others. I am very happy to be able to learn about this particular mindset as described by Carol Dweck throughout the year and learn more about me in the meantime!