Everyone’s notions of success differ because individuals perceive success based on their own experiences with various environmental influences. As analyzed by Carol S. Dweck in her article “Mindset: The New Psychology of Success”, there are two main mental outlooks that affect people that are classified as growth and fixed mindsets. Dweck states that people with fixed mindsets identify success as a result of their inherited intelligence, and the ability to avoid failure at all costs. Hence, a fixed mindset is the belief that one’s skills are carved in stone rather than practiced and nourished. In contrast, a growth mindset seeks challenges and views failures as an opportunity to grow and develop better skills, and that failure is not evidence
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The positive environment came when he met his senior language arts teacher whose name was Jack Macfarland. Instead of the typical vocational track instructor that would put students down or not care for their education, Mr. MacFarland pushed the students to work hard and increase the work amount, thus having the students push their intellect and themselves as a person. Therefore, he had them, “[write] three or four essays a month... read a book every two to three weeks,” as well as giving them a “quiz on the reading every other day,” (5). This system of work really pushed students to really explore themselves and their potential to work, thus McFarland was helping them develop a growth mindset because he showed them that despite the hard work, he knew they were capable of doing it. This is a successful environment that helped students care more about not only their general education, but it opened doors for them to use that concept of growth to their lives. Therefore, they can use the concept to find their talent or learn a skill they love to do and to push themselves to become better every day. Rose showed us that because of MacFarland’s teaching, “even [his] fellow slackers, had better backgrounds than [he] did,” (6). Because of McFarland’s positive environment,
The positive environment came when he met his senior language arts teacher whose name was Jack Macfarland. Instead of the typical vocational track instructor that would put students down or not care for their education, Mr. MacFarland pushed the students to work hard and increase the work amount, thus having the students push their intellect and themselves as a person. Therefore, he had them, “[write] three or four essays a month... read a book every two to three weeks,” as well as giving them a “quiz on the reading every other day,” (5). This system of work really pushed students to really explore themselves and their potential to work, thus McFarland was helping them develop a growth mindset because he showed them that despite the hard work, he knew they were capable of doing it. This is a successful environment that helped students care more about not only their general education, but it opened doors for them to use that concept of growth to their lives. Therefore, they can use the concept to find their talent or learn a skill they love to do and to push themselves to become better every day. Rose showed us that because of MacFarland’s teaching, “even [his] fellow slackers, had better backgrounds than [he] did,” (6). Because of McFarland’s positive environment,