Growth Mindset

“You become what you think about all day long,” said Ralph Waldo Emerson, but to agree or disagree with his claim is the ultimate question. Honestly if a person thinks about something all day possibly they could become so paranoid they literally become it. Maybe it could depend on their type of mindset if its growth or fixed. A growth mindset is when someone can truly believe they can overcome a failure and their positive traits and skills may develop later in life, but if someone has a fixed mindset they would believe that you have success or you don’t there is no improving. Depending on if a person has positive or negative thoughts could definitely impact which mindset they have. Thoughts do in fact determine a person's failure or success by allowing someone to overcome a failure, to believe in themselves, and to lower anxiety. …show more content…
If someone is trying to overcome a failure they need to have a strong growth mindset not a fixed mindset. Most of the time a failure hits hard on a person so a positive mentality is needed or a growth mindset, so that person knows they can come back better than ever and grow in positive thoughts. Needing positive thoughts was proven when Georges St Pierre lost his UFC title to Matt Serra. Georges proved this by saying “I truly believe that this loss is probably the best thing that ever happened to me.”, he says this because it allowed him to start believing in himself when he's winning and even when he's not. Positive thoughts are also a necessity to overcome failure because our brains are naturally wired to think negatively as scientist suggest. When someone says something negative it automatically effects us because it specifically targets us, so if someone was trying to overcome and incident negative thoughts would push them down even more. In conclusion your thoughts are a big contribution to whether you can overcome a failure or