Growth Mindset : Growth Mindset Memes - Make your own - Week 8

The author of this quote is unknown.  I chose to use automotivator in order to make this meme using this image from Pixabay.
Since Laura's growth mindset memes all have cats, I decided to stick with this theme.

Growth Mindset: Grow-Your-Writing-Style - Week 6

I am trying to see growth in my writing style.  This was done for the story listed in week 5, however because I am on my 6th growth mindset challenge I decided to use the week 6 label, since this will count towards my week 6 extra credit.

This week I decided to use the very first storytelling style that the storytelling assignment listed.  I happened to get 'Five Motifs' which I have not done before.  For those of you who are unfamiliar with this storytelling style, the goal is to pick five objects, characters, settings, etc. and create my own story around it.

If you are interested to see the result, please read my story called Thieves in the Night. 

Fountain Pen - Wikipedia Article

Growth Mindset : Stories About Growth - Week 5

As my reading this week I chose Arabian Nights.  In this story I believe Aladdin shows a growth mindset.

One Thousand and One Nights - Wikipedia Article

Aladdin falls in love with a princess, and is determined to marry her.  Even though common folk don't marry royalty, he still implores his mother to ask the Sultan for her hand in marriage.  Aladdin waits eagerly for the month until the wedding, but instead the princess is Married to the Grand-Vizir's daughter.  Instead of becoming disheartened, Aladdin found a way to marry her anyway.

Aladdin gave the Sultan everything he wished for, and kept filling his requests.  When the princess was kidnapped, Aladdin traveled to another country to get her back.  He found her, and found a way to get her home.  In a way, you could say that Aladdin had a growth mindset about marrying the princess, he never gave up and perused her despite every challenge.

Growth Mindset : Talk about mindset - Week 4

This week I talked to a friend about growth mindset.  I asked him what he knew about the growth mindset.  He said that he's heard about it a few times on the radio, but that he did not know a lot about the growth mindset, and that he'd never talked about it in any of his classes.

I then went on to explain what I knew about growth mindset.  It's about valuing effort, work, progress rather than feeling good only if the final product meets expectations.  He said this what not really something he applied in his classes, but that he did feel good about an assignment if he tried his hardest, even if he didn't get the best grade.

Growth Mindset - Flickr

Growth Mindset: Grow by Watching Others - Week 3

This week I chose to grow by watching others.  A description of this challenge can be found on the growth mindset challenge page. Following are a few of the favorite posts I found from other students.

Growth Mindset post 1: This post was titled dream big and dare to fail.  It included two pictures, as well as a quote that I have always really liked, "Shoot for the moon.  Even if you miss you'll land among the stars."

Source: First Cover

Growth Mindset post 2: This post has a picture that immediately caught my eye.  It was titled the power of I don't know.

The Power of I Don't Know. Source.

Growth Mindset post 3: Here is the last post I decided to repost.  Once again, it was the image that really caught my eye, but humans are very visual people so this is no surprise.  This student chose to do a challenge that I haven't tried yet, but maybe I will try a new writing style next week.

Image from The Thinking Moms' Revolution

Growth Mindset Memes - Week 2

Source: Laura Gibbs, Proverb Laboratory

 After looking through some of the growth mindset memes, I found one that really stood out to me.  Using a pen on an assignment can be scary, people feel like they have to be perfect.  This is similar to the Fixed mindset, the feeling that we have to be perfect.  It's OK to erase things we want to change, to improve on our work, and to make mistakes.  If we don't have an eraser, we can even cross things out.  This is an outlook that can help me in class, when I need to edit blog posts, and it can help me in life, when I feel embarrassed about doing something wrong. 

Growth Mindset - Week 1

I have never heard of Carol Dweck before, however I have heard of the growth mindset.  I learned about it in my Public Speaking class.  The teacher wanted us to have a growth mindset approach to public speaking.  Public speaking is something a lot of people aren't good at starting up, but it is a skill that people can acquire through growth.

Growing up, I was very much part of the fixed mindset school of though.  I was always good at school, and getting the A was very important to me.  It's not that I don't like a challenge, because I definitely do, but I don't want a challenge to get in the way of what I was considering success.  I am much more open to challenges and failure outside of school.

It is very difficult to change a mindset. After thinking about things for in a specific way for 21 years, it's not something that will change quickly.  I know dealing with imperfection is a very important part of life, but learning to accept improvement, and being happy with it is an important part of life.

I know I am worried about a graduate level theory class called Computational Complexity.  Although I am interested in the subject matter, i almost didn't take it because I have heard that it is a difficult class.  Instead, I considered sitting in on the class  so I could learn the material without the chance of failure.  This is not a good way of thinking.  I need to learn to have more of a growth mindset.

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