The key concept of Mindset is you either have a fixed mindset or a growth mindset, or even a mixture of both. The mindset you have affects how you go through life and deal with challenges and failures.
A person’s mindset begins even when they are mere children. This was shown in the example where children where given a simple puzzle and when haven successfully solved that puzzle, they were asked if they wanted to do the same puzzle again or move on to a harder one. Some of the children remained with the same puzzle while others decided to try to solve the more difficult one.
Each child’s decision reveals which mindset they have, the children that solved the same puzzle again have a fixed mindset. They are afraid of failure and new challenges. …show more content…
Both of the groups started with identical past grades and then after facing challenges in school their grades diverged. The students with a growth mindset had steadily increasing grades while students with a fixed mindset had decreasing grades. Having a growth or fixed mindset does not only affect your grades or how you face challenges, it also affects your personality or your aggression for example as shown in this study.
They started a study about adolescent aggression; they divided the students into three groups. The first group had a growth mindset workshop, the second group had a coping skills workshop and the third group had no-treatment control.
The group that showed the most change in their aggressive behavior was the group with the growth mindset workshop. This shows that if a person can improve their own qualities through having a growth mindset and working on themselves, this scientifically proves that people can actually …show more content…
We didn’t push as hard as we should have. At the same time, we failed to truly understand all of the client’s key concerns.
As for having felt if he had a growth or fixed mindset and how that mindset helped or hindered that situation, previously if I requested some information and were bound by red tapes, I would attempt to explain why the red tapes shouldn’t be there and how I need the information for my job, which would eventually lead to failure in acquiring what I need. However, now I’m more driven into understanding the company’s policies and learning how to work my way around them without breaking any. Honestly, I think I would have failed my job if my mindset were not to grow as it did.
As for my sister her answer to the first question was, one of my greatest successes was teaching myself programming and subsequently starting a new career with that new skill. One of the toughest times in my career was when I taught kids with emotional/behavioral disorders. It was so difficult and emotionally exhausting because it felt like I didn't have the tools to help the kids (some were gang members, prostitutes, etc. they have very difficult
A person’s mindset begins even when they are mere children. This was shown in the example where children where given a simple puzzle and when haven successfully solved that puzzle, they were asked if they wanted to do the same puzzle again or move on to a harder one. Some of the children remained with the same puzzle while others decided to try to solve the more difficult one.
Each child’s decision reveals which mindset they have, the children that solved the same puzzle again have a fixed mindset. They are afraid of failure and new challenges. …show more content…
Both of the groups started with identical past grades and then after facing challenges in school their grades diverged. The students with a growth mindset had steadily increasing grades while students with a fixed mindset had decreasing grades. Having a growth or fixed mindset does not only affect your grades or how you face challenges, it also affects your personality or your aggression for example as shown in this study.
They started a study about adolescent aggression; they divided the students into three groups. The first group had a growth mindset workshop, the second group had a coping skills workshop and the third group had no-treatment control.
The group that showed the most change in their aggressive behavior was the group with the growth mindset workshop. This shows that if a person can improve their own qualities through having a growth mindset and working on themselves, this scientifically proves that people can actually …show more content…
We didn’t push as hard as we should have. At the same time, we failed to truly understand all of the client’s key concerns.
As for having felt if he had a growth or fixed mindset and how that mindset helped or hindered that situation, previously if I requested some information and were bound by red tapes, I would attempt to explain why the red tapes shouldn’t be there and how I need the information for my job, which would eventually lead to failure in acquiring what I need. However, now I’m more driven into understanding the company’s policies and learning how to work my way around them without breaking any. Honestly, I think I would have failed my job if my mindset were not to grow as it did.
As for my sister her answer to the first question was, one of my greatest successes was teaching myself programming and subsequently starting a new career with that new skill. One of the toughest times in my career was when I taught kids with emotional/behavioral disorders. It was so difficult and emotionally exhausting because it felt like I didn't have the tools to help the kids (some were gang members, prostitutes, etc. they have very difficult