Growth Mindset: Cats

"Effort is the Path to Mastery".  I like this growth mindset cat one because I think what its saying is very valid and important, and I also think the picture of the cat is so funny!  When I think of what effort is the path to mastery means I think about the phrase "you never know if you don't try".  In other words, you will never get any better without trying to be better and putting in the work you need to get where you want to be! 

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"Errors are portals of discovery".  I absolutely love this quote! Failure is scary.  But, in order to be successful you must learn from your mistakes, which means that you need to make them! No one is perfect and are all going to make errors, and what's important is that we learn from them and discover ourselves and always continue learning. 

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"Stay Creative: Have Fun".  This is so important.  Especially in college it is so easy to lose sight of the big picture and begin to stress and not enjoy what you are doing.  I feel it is so important to remember that college should be fun! Life should be fun! Just because you get stressed and have things you have to do that you don't always want to do doesn't mean that you should completely lose sight of the important things. If you aren't enjoying what you are doing, make a change! It's as simple as that. 

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Growth Mindset by Carol Dweck

Coming into this assignment I had not heard of Carol Dweck before, or her idea of Growth Mindset. I learned about it by watching a series of videos made by her explaining the power of changing our growth mindset and the great potential it could have on our overall knowledge and learning ability.  On the scale of growth mindset I feel like I am in the middle when it comes to my school work.  Obviously, I like when I am able to finish something quickly with little difficulty, but on the flip side I love feeling the sense of accomplishment when I finish something that really challenged me and that I had to put a lot of effort into.  I have found this especially as I have advanced into my degree, the classes continue to get more difficult and require more effort but the reward is so much greater at the end.  During my time at OU, I have learned the value of preparing for class and studying in small amounts each day rather than trying to cram a units of information the night before a test.  As I've set about learning new things one of the biggest challenges for me has been being able to except a "not yet".  In high school everything came pretty easily to me and I wasn't really faced with a whole lot of "not yets".  But coming into college that has changed especially again as my classes progress.  But after watching Carol's videos I now realize even more that failing means you tried! and that is better than never putting yourself out there to succeed.  I think the growth mindset could help me this semester in my learning and I am looking forward to learning more about it.  I am also taking physiology this semester and I know that a lot of these principles would be a great tool to apply as I move forward in my education.

Growth of Fixed? The Growth Mindset.