Week 8 Growth Mindset

(Image from Cheezburger)

Reading the chart and comparing my mindset in this class and in my life to earlier this semester I noticed a lot of changes! For example at the beginning of the semester, I focused on grades now I know to focus on learning and the grade I deserve will come. A couple of my strengths in this class are being open to any and all feedback, being always ready to learn more and focusing on my own progress. Some of my weaknesses are I tend to do the minimum in the class to get the grade I need, and doing things at the last minute. One of the things I tend to be really good at overall in my life is being ready for things to change, and being willing to try new things. I think this is because I moved a lot growing up so I had to get used to doing these things. My weaknesses in life I think include playing it safe and comparing myself to others. To grow and improve myself I need to change the way I think so that I can start planning ahead in the class and start thinking of myself as an individual to stop comparing myself to others!

Growth Mindset

The concept of growth mindset is completely new to me; as is Carol Dwyer. In today's society, it feels like everything revolves around how successful you are. It puts a lot of pressure on us, as students because if we get a bad grade on a test, or even in a class, we think "Oh my gosh, we have to change our major, we're not going to get into graduate school etc." I personally am no different. It extremely difficult to get into Physical Therapy school, so when I received a grade last semester, that I wasn't happy about I thought my life was over. Even my advisor said that it was going to be difficult to get into PT school now. So this growth mindset could really help a lot of students. It could show them that rather giving up after life gives them a challenge, they need to learn all they can from it and move on. I want to learn more about the growth mindset this semester so that I am able to apply it to all my classes not only this year, but also in graduate school.

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