Being gritty can help a person with a growth mindset succeed because a gritty person sticks with things until they mastered it. Being gritty helps you stay focused and motivates the individual to do better. This helps a person with a growth mindset confront the challenges and keep on moving. They have to learn from their mistakes and continue trying until they succeed. The failures doesn’t define them.
“Sticking with things over the very long term until you master them”. In other words Hanford is saying that you need patience and persistence to achieve greatness. For example sophomore year, I had gym first period I was always late, because I am not a morning person. Every morning at 6:05am, I continuously received a phone call from the school …show more content…
English is not my best subject actually its my worst subject but I still try to do what I can to pass. I would always stay up late doing my homework stuck and dumfounded on a question or statement because I was thinking to much about it to the point where I gave up and didn’t hand anything in. Every time I walked in the class with no work to give, I just wanted to have a mental breakdown but I didn’t want to portray myself as a weak person. That year I was required to take the English regents, so my teacher would hand out, short stories or excepts with short response questions or multiple choice. She constantly gave us work like this and I stared to improve my writing skills and learned how to make time proportional. When it was getting close to regents week, I remembered when she told this little story about a student that took the English regents 4 or 5 times and I didn’t want to be that student. I really tried so hard, I was focused on what I wanted and I was going to get it. Usually I get anxiety taking test and I have a mindset where I was ready to fail but that day I felt so confident. I walked in that big, cold room, I put my 2 sharpened number 2 pencils and 2 pens on my desk. I was ready. When I opened the test book I said to myself, “I got this!”,
“Sticking with things over the very long term until you master them”. In other words Hanford is saying that you need patience and persistence to achieve greatness. For example sophomore year, I had gym first period I was always late, because I am not a morning person. Every morning at 6:05am, I continuously received a phone call from the school …show more content…
English is not my best subject actually its my worst subject but I still try to do what I can to pass. I would always stay up late doing my homework stuck and dumfounded on a question or statement because I was thinking to much about it to the point where I gave up and didn’t hand anything in. Every time I walked in the class with no work to give, I just wanted to have a mental breakdown but I didn’t want to portray myself as a weak person. That year I was required to take the English regents, so my teacher would hand out, short stories or excepts with short response questions or multiple choice. She constantly gave us work like this and I stared to improve my writing skills and learned how to make time proportional. When it was getting close to regents week, I remembered when she told this little story about a student that took the English regents 4 or 5 times and I didn’t want to be that student. I really tried so hard, I was focused on what I wanted and I was going to get it. Usually I get anxiety taking test and I have a mindset where I was ready to fail but that day I felt so confident. I walked in that big, cold room, I put my 2 sharpened number 2 pencils and 2 pens on my desk. I was ready. When I opened the test book I said to myself, “I got this!”,