Mind’s Secret Comfort
Imagine that your teacher gives you an assignment Friday morning, and it's not do until Monday morning. this gives you two alternatives: either you finish your work Friday night or postpone your work until Sunday midnight. Individually, our decisions will be based on a mindset set by ourselves, according to the environment that surrounds us. Consequently, the way people manage their mindsets has a direct relationship with academic and personal life development. Still, the existence of fixed mindsets is greatly ignored just because of the comfort that brings us and our brains. Actually, this statement is based on the analysis of Carol Dweck’s article Brainology, as well as Annie Lamott’s essay Shitty First Drafts which serves as evidence of how harmful fixed mindsets can be. In other words, fixed mindsets exist because they are psychologically comfortable for us and our brains.
When we talk about growth, we tend to overlook the fact that it involves work and effort, but also a healthy amount discomfort. According to Carol Dwek’s article “Brainology”, growth mindsets can positively impact in our learning abilities, intelligence, and even our …show more content…
Dweck describes how this causes us to be are deeply scared about confronting problems and challenges because we think we are not capable of solving them, giving us a sense of failure and demoralizing into thinking that we’re not good enough to confront any obstacles that may present in the future (1). To escape from that fear caused by ourselves, we focus our life in only what we know, in order to avoid being humiliated by our inability to solve problems. Gradually, we become surrounded by a wall of limited understanding that makes us believe that the less we know the better, and suddenly we find ourselves living comfortable in our own
Imagine that your teacher gives you an assignment Friday morning, and it's not do until Monday morning. this gives you two alternatives: either you finish your work Friday night or postpone your work until Sunday midnight. Individually, our decisions will be based on a mindset set by ourselves, according to the environment that surrounds us. Consequently, the way people manage their mindsets has a direct relationship with academic and personal life development. Still, the existence of fixed mindsets is greatly ignored just because of the comfort that brings us and our brains. Actually, this statement is based on the analysis of Carol Dweck’s article Brainology, as well as Annie Lamott’s essay Shitty First Drafts which serves as evidence of how harmful fixed mindsets can be. In other words, fixed mindsets exist because they are psychologically comfortable for us and our brains.
When we talk about growth, we tend to overlook the fact that it involves work and effort, but also a healthy amount discomfort. According to Carol Dwek’s article “Brainology”, growth mindsets can positively impact in our learning abilities, intelligence, and even our …show more content…
Dweck describes how this causes us to be are deeply scared about confronting problems and challenges because we think we are not capable of solving them, giving us a sense of failure and demoralizing into thinking that we’re not good enough to confront any obstacles that may present in the future (1). To escape from that fear caused by ourselves, we focus our life in only what we know, in order to avoid being humiliated by our inability to solve problems. Gradually, we become surrounded by a wall of limited understanding that makes us believe that the less we know the better, and suddenly we find ourselves living comfortable in our own