Personal Narrative: High School Baseball Team

One situation where I found myself in a fixed mindset was when I was a freshman at Mountain Pointe high school trying to make the baseball team. At the time, I had a half-hearted passion for baseball that made me want to be on the school baseball team, but I felt that everything would come natural to me because I was Dominican. I was quite proud of how Dominicans were typically great at baseball quite naturally it seemed. However, with this knowledge I became highly critical about everything I did when playing baseball at the high school camps before the baseball tryouts. I did not focus on overall improvement as I tried to ensure that every throw, batting, and pitch was perfect. In the end, I was not able to make the team as my skills nor did my mindset suffice in comparison to others. …show more content…
I was very much like the others at first in my ability to play baseball as the people on the team were barely coming out of 8th grade with plenty of room for growth mentally and physically. In a replay, I would have first have rid myself of thoughts on how perfect I should be when playing the game. Instead, I would have to realize what my current skills were at the time, and then would have to seek improvement of those skills daily incrementally. The growth mindset of having incremental growth to reach goals instead of believing the talent is already there would have ultimately changed my outcome of whether I made the baseball team freshman