Once I thought that success can be reached through hard work and determination but I now I think that success can be reached through changing mindset and grit. Changing mindset is a way that psychologist tries help students succeed later in life. I t allows them to change the way students thought about school and to do better within. Grit, on the other hand, is the student's perseverance and passion of students to do better within school. Both work synonymously together to help students be successful later in life.
Mindset is the set way a person thinks. It has been theorized by many psychologists that if we change the mindset in youth that they will most likely succeed later on in life. They believe that if they change how students thought …show more content…
Grit is the passion and perseverance for long-term goals as defined by Angela Lee Duckworth. Grit exists in everyone and in every field. Grit proves that is isn't just ability that can allow people to succeed. She quotes that “Galton (1892) collected biographical information on eminent judges, statesmen, scientists, poets, musicians, painters, wrestlers, and others. Ability alone, he concluded, did not bring about success in any field. Rather, he believed high achievers to be triply blessed by “ability combined with zeal and with capacity for hard labour’” (Duckworth 1088). Even psychologist from years prior, that studied this topic discovered the existences of grit and did their own study to prove it. Even though so many people have done their research, little is still known about grit. But one thing is for sure, though. That change mindset has a definite effect on grit. If we can change the mindset of young adolescent teens to do better in school then they’re likelihood of them succeeding is higher. Carol Dweck stated in her research “Through a series of exercises, the experimenters trained half the students to chalk up their errors to insufficient effort, and encouraged them to keep going. Those children learned to persist in the face of failure—and to succeed” (Krakovsky 1). Her experiment has the elements that make up the aspects of
Mindset is the set way a person thinks. It has been theorized by many psychologists that if we change the mindset in youth that they will most likely succeed later on in life. They believe that if they change how students thought …show more content…
Grit is the passion and perseverance for long-term goals as defined by Angela Lee Duckworth. Grit exists in everyone and in every field. Grit proves that is isn't just ability that can allow people to succeed. She quotes that “Galton (1892) collected biographical information on eminent judges, statesmen, scientists, poets, musicians, painters, wrestlers, and others. Ability alone, he concluded, did not bring about success in any field. Rather, he believed high achievers to be triply blessed by “ability combined with zeal and with capacity for hard labour’” (Duckworth 1088). Even psychologist from years prior, that studied this topic discovered the existences of grit and did their own study to prove it. Even though so many people have done their research, little is still known about grit. But one thing is for sure, though. That change mindset has a definite effect on grit. If we can change the mindset of young adolescent teens to do better in school then they’re likelihood of them succeeding is higher. Carol Dweck stated in her research “Through a series of exercises, the experimenters trained half the students to chalk up their errors to insufficient effort, and encouraged them to keep going. Those children learned to persist in the face of failure—and to succeed” (Krakovsky 1). Her experiment has the elements that make up the aspects of