In the TED talk “The Power of Believing You Can Improve”, Dr. Carol Dweck explains the idea of “growth mindset”. She talks about how simply believing that failure is not a condition can help you learn and grow, and make you a better student. She talks about the “power of yet”. This is where instead of looking at something as a failure, you consider it a challenge that you haven’t overcome yet. On a similar note, Angela Lee Duckworth, in the TED talk “The Power of Passion and Perseverance”, discusses the idea of ‘grit’. She speaks of her research in situations where individuals must face tough challenges. Her team went to WestPoint, inner city schools, and workplaces. Through research, she discovered that the most successful participants’ unique
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Practice does not make perfect but it makes progress. When challenges arise, you need to actively think about what mindset you’re approaching it with. Kids need to be taught this, and kids need to be seeing their teachers respond to challenges in this way as well. If kids are surrounded by other students and teachers who have a growth mindset, their growth mindset will grow as well. When people around you are thinking a certain way, you tend to drift that way as well whether it is a good mindset or not. If you are around people with fixed mindsets it becomes much more difficult to change your mindset, especially if it becomes a patterned way of thinking for you. Therefore, kids need to be conditioned to accept failures as a part of success, not as the opposite of …show more content…
Parents and early education professionals should be aware of how their kids see themselves and how they approach challenges and failure. Kids should not be afraid of failing but should accept failure, knowing that trying and failing is better than not trying at all. Success does not occur without failure. Looking back at your life haven’t you learned so much more through challenges than the successes? When life seems the lowest you are growing the most. Surround yourself with people with growth mindsets and grittiness and do your best. Failure is not the end of the journey, it is a part of
Practice does not make perfect but it makes progress. When challenges arise, you need to actively think about what mindset you’re approaching it with. Kids need to be taught this, and kids need to be seeing their teachers respond to challenges in this way as well. If kids are surrounded by other students and teachers who have a growth mindset, their growth mindset will grow as well. When people around you are thinking a certain way, you tend to drift that way as well whether it is a good mindset or not. If you are around people with fixed mindsets it becomes much more difficult to change your mindset, especially if it becomes a patterned way of thinking for you. Therefore, kids need to be conditioned to accept failures as a part of success, not as the opposite of …show more content…
Parents and early education professionals should be aware of how their kids see themselves and how they approach challenges and failure. Kids should not be afraid of failing but should accept failure, knowing that trying and failing is better than not trying at all. Success does not occur without failure. Looking back at your life haven’t you learned so much more through challenges than the successes? When life seems the lowest you are growing the most. Surround yourself with people with growth mindsets and grittiness and do your best. Failure is not the end of the journey, it is a part of