Week 13: Growth Mindset

Determination Quote
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I had noticed that I wasn't too good at writing stories with lots of dialogue in them. It was a bit of a challenge for me to try to incorporate that aspect in terms of rules of punctuation and such. Actually, my earlier stories didn't have much dialogue at all! So these past couple of weeks I have tried to add more dialogue and that was a challenge in itself! I did need some help revising my stories when it came to where I placed by periods and learning the rules when it came to quotations. But, I think I did learn something from trying this new writing style. Hopefully this will carry with me and help in the future with my writing in general!

Growth Mindset: Week 7



Cheezburger Meme
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My favorite type of positive reinforcement, I have come to find, is cute, funny, and motivational little memes.
I found this one in one of the Growth Mindset Meme blogs, and it really spoke to me and how I have handled past failures. This applies to work, school, and just personal life. Instead of wallowing in misery, I have learned to just use failure, and use it to, as Fat Amy says, "fuel my hatefire". I learn that I don't like to feel the way I do after something has gone wrong. So it makes me try harder, so I try to avoid feeling like that again. Postivie thinking is key! So, like this cute little meme I found says, it really hurts to fail but it doesn't mean YOU are a failure. You just have to keep trying again and again. 

Growth Mindset

After watching the growth mindset videos, I guess you could say I never knew that was an actual way of thinking and how much good it could do, based of the scientific facts I mean. And it makes sense, because now a days it is common for one to feel like a failure and beat ourselves up, many of us not being able to pick ourselves up after not achieving something we desire. I think I have in a sense begun to take on this form of thinking, but I never knew there was an actual name for this and the research involved in it. I used to be very hard on myself, especially in the academic sense. I would spend my time beating myself up instead of just assuming the challenge and bettering myself. But now, I have much more of a "get up and get it done" approach. Instead of just crying over spilled milk, as you would say, I would talk to myself, crazy as it sounds, and tell myself that it won't help anything. That I have to get up and if I want something, I have to "fight" for it. I hate to admit it, but I am not good at math. Well, rather that I don't like it very much, to put it lightly. And last semester I failed my Calc I course, and here I am retaking it again, but with a better and more positive mentality. I think that the Growth Mindset challenge that would help me out the most is the one that has to do with my other classes. I will attempt to maximize my efforts in every other class as well!


Here's my favorite meme that I've found thus far:

Image Source: Growth Mindset Meme