(Growth Mindset cat meme created using cheezburger. Posted by Laura Gibbs to her Growth Mindset Cats blog on January 17th, 2017)
In order to truly inhabit growth mindset, I have a feeling instilling in myself will have to come from being on break from schoolwork, as some good and heavy-hitting ideas like the Learn by H.E.A.R.T challenges, looking up more video resources for growth mindset and discussing said mindset with friends and family appear to take up a large amount of time. Unfortunately, I feel spare time is not an easily acquired commodity in college classes, where my mind needs to be focused in different assignments.
That said, I can take smaller steps to integrating growth mindset into my semester, starting with this class, as I would love to get recommendations and instructions on how to tell stories in new formats, refining and expanding my writing skills and ruminating on them. The easily consumable and instantaneous effect of memes also gets me interested in the idea of perusing growth mindset memes. And it doesn't just have to come from me, I can look at other students' growth mindset posts if I have some spare minutes.
As for Learn by H.E.A.R.T., practicing engaged listening might benefit me in the long run with focusing on lecture materials in my other classes, as I often do consider myself the absent-minded type. I don't know if I can participate in them myself, but hearing others' experiences with the challenges could also give me ideas on how to better manage my time and attitude.
Growth mindset is not something I can totally adopt for this semester, but I could probably inject bits of it to make my mind a little less insane.
It seems as if you are very realistic with yourself. I find it very wise that you are realistic with your time and you understand your schedule enough to know what you can and cannot handle. I also think that it's wise that you are willing to inject bits and pieces of this information. I think the growth mindset is something that we all could use in our lives and I always remind myself that if I'm not getting it it's just because I'm not there yet -- not because I haven't met the end goal.
ReplyDeleteI like your take on growth mindset and I appreciate that you’re honest with yourself about it. However, I wouldn’t consider not yet achieving something a failure in every case. Imagine a beginner gymnast working for a back-hand-spring, if she doesn’t get it the first day, is she a failure? No, she just doesn’t have it “yet” and needs more time. I can see how there are some though where you can fail. I think you only fail, when you decided to give up because the “not yet” will then definitely turn into the “not ever.”
ReplyDeleteSince I've already commented on your introduction, this is usually the next post that interests me most. I really like to see the different outlooks that growth mindset gives to different people. First of all, I love the meme that you used. It really sets up the post and leads right in to your introductory sentence. Growth mindset is definitely a huge deal, you can't just immediately establish one. I like that you said you will "Inject bits of it to make my mind a little less insane." I thought that was nothing short of the truth, and I enjoy the sarcastic wording.
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I completely agree that "not yet" can be kind of discouraging to here. I also much prefer "getting there" or "nearly there." I also understand that free time for college students is hard to find. I definitely feel like I have no time for myself or anyone else really. I have tried my best, like you, to incorporate bits of growth mindset into my life as best I can.
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