Carol Dweck Brainology

Educational Autobiography Have you ever wondered where you would be today if you did not have the education you’ve had along the way? Throughout my years my motivation has stemmed from not only my parents, family and my teachers but it has come from within myself too. I strongly believe that praise and reward can help a student who is struggling or help them with their weaknesses.
Carol Dweck in “Brainology” states that a growth mindset person has better odds of becoming who they want to be in life and that their intelligence will take them far (Dweck 1). I agree and it is also the reason I have changed my mindset. Setbacks are a way of telling yourself to try harder next time and I took that as a challenge for myself. My parents taught me the method of “tough love” for example if I had got a C on a essay they knew I could do better on they would make sure I rewrote it and turned it back in. This helped me in many ways including making me feel that I can always strive for better if I really put my mind to something.
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There are different methods such as teaching kids in their strengths. I never knew what my strengths were until my high school agriculture teacher showed me what my skills were and how to use them. In “Brainology” it talks about students and their different mindsets, but it doesn’t talk about how kids should be understood and how kids have different challenges for example my weakest subject has always been math and I have always struggled (Dweck 5). Although I had help and tutors I still never found that I could say I was good at math or that I understood completely but I can say that I learned. Fixed and growth mindsets, in my opinion, have their own way of learning even though a fixed mindset doesn’t get every ounce of knowledge out of a book they look at the bigger picture and look at the general aspects opposed to a growth