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Fear can keep students from pursuing their dreams and goals because in order to be successful the learner needs to experience failure. This feeling of fear can be mortal for some students because it closes doors and opportunities for them since they are too afraid to be successful and accept new challenges in their life. Carol Dweck wrote an article tittle “Brainology” that talks about two different mindsets students tend to have, which are known as: the fixed and growth mind-set. The Fixed mindset is when students tend to believe that they are born being geniuses. In contrast to the growth mind-set that is define as students who work hard and put effort in order to gain their intelligence. Most students tend to fear college because it can …show more content…

I can tell that one of my major fears is to fail academically, considering that college is such an important step in my life because is the place that will determine my future. Due to the response of being afraid on taking new challenges, my life has being affected in many ways. Dweck on her article state: “These different beliefs, or mindsets, create different psychological worlds: one in which students are afraid of challenges and devastated by setbacks and one in which students relish challenges and are resilient in the face of setbacks” in other words fixed mindset students are afraid of challenges, in contrast to the growth mindset students who are willing to challenge themselves. As a matter of fact I can tell that I can identify with both definitions. I consider myself a fixed mindsets because I tend to always make things easy for myself and I never like to try new things, it’s like I am afraid of doing so. On the other hand I also consider myself as a growth mindset because if I fail I always try my best to get back up and try even harder the next time. Although I may have a little of both, the fear of failing has bring me to a fixed mind-set because I tend to be afraid on trying new tasks and taking risks and it not only has affected me academically but also in my personal …show more content…

Through all my 19 years of life I’ve only learn one thing, which is that when students tell themselves “I can’t do it” they will obtain failure but in the other hand if students are constantly reminding themselves “I can and I will do it” they will obtain success. Dweck made it clear on her article: “It is through effort that people build their abilities and realize their potential” in other words students need to challenge themselves for them to obtain more than what they expect, and with effort and a positive attitude everything is possible. My mom always tells me “dream big and you will be big” and I always keep that in mind. In other words if one day I want to be a billionaire, I will try my best to do so, and I will accept all of the challenges in order to get to my goal, and I understand that it will be a hard path but it doesn’t matter how hard and complicated it will be I can do it and I will do it. I don’t know what life may have for me or what hard situations I might go through in the future but I do know one thing right now and is that no matter what circumstances I’ll go through life I will always do my best at succeeding because is better to try your best and fail, than to do nothing and still fail. Like Dweck says on her article: “No one succeeds in a big way without enormous amounts of dedication and

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