The Martian: grace under pressure.
In the book the Martian, we follow the journey of a stranded astronaut in mars after a windstorm, his struggle for survival and subsequently rescue. We are privy to his thought process and problem solving abilities through a series of log entries. We learn how he overcomes trial after trial until help arrives. He manages to do this as a result of grit, by fostering a growth mindset which allows him to maintain his optimistic outlook, despite the fact that he has everything stacked against him.
He is aware of all the things that could go wrong. There is not denying that any one error could be his last, as he tells it in the following quote; “if I the oxygenator breaks down, I’ll suffocate. If the water reclaimer breaks down, I’ll die of thirst. If the hab breaches, I’ll Just kind of explode. If none of those things happen, I’ll eventually run out of food and starve to death” (Weir, p. 3%) No one would blame him if at any time he gave up hope, and waited for death to come. Not only was he aware of all the technical things that could go wrong, but the knowledge that people on earth were …show more content…
by developing a growth mindset, we are able to increase our grit quotient and thus increase our chances of succeeding at a particular goal. Through the creation of a grit scale, and six different studies they discovered that grit was not related to IQ or how talented a person was, but rather the ability to focus and applied said talent in a long term capacity. in this instance grit is being defined as the ability to stay focus on a single goal despite setbacks while growth mindset is defined as viewing intelligence and talent as augmentative and
In the book the Martian, we follow the journey of a stranded astronaut in mars after a windstorm, his struggle for survival and subsequently rescue. We are privy to his thought process and problem solving abilities through a series of log entries. We learn how he overcomes trial after trial until help arrives. He manages to do this as a result of grit, by fostering a growth mindset which allows him to maintain his optimistic outlook, despite the fact that he has everything stacked against him.
He is aware of all the things that could go wrong. There is not denying that any one error could be his last, as he tells it in the following quote; “if I the oxygenator breaks down, I’ll suffocate. If the water reclaimer breaks down, I’ll die of thirst. If the hab breaches, I’ll Just kind of explode. If none of those things happen, I’ll eventually run out of food and starve to death” (Weir, p. 3%) No one would blame him if at any time he gave up hope, and waited for death to come. Not only was he aware of all the technical things that could go wrong, but the knowledge that people on earth were …show more content…
by developing a growth mindset, we are able to increase our grit quotient and thus increase our chances of succeeding at a particular goal. Through the creation of a grit scale, and six different studies they discovered that grit was not related to IQ or how talented a person was, but rather the ability to focus and applied said talent in a long term capacity. in this instance grit is being defined as the ability to stay focus on a single goal despite setbacks while growth mindset is defined as viewing intelligence and talent as augmentative and