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I Am Not For Writing My Thoughts

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I am not that good with words, so I tried writing my thoughts. It is a bit awkward writing like this. There are a few things I wanted to say. It has recently come to my attention that you may have some problems. You might pretend like you do not know what I am talking about, so let me lay it out specifically for you: your lack of motivation and your fixed mindset in some areas of your life are undermining your potential. Fortunately, there are some solutions that might work for you which I found from the two great books I read recently. Hope you do not mind for wanting to share some of the wisdom from the books with you. If I were to put it in a sentence, it would be something like this: growth-mindset is the recipe for success, and you need grit – passion and perseverance – to cultivate those skills. First, let me give you a brief idea of what those books are about. Mindset, which categorizes people into either growth or fixed mindset person, is an inquiry into the power of our beliefs, and how it can have a profound impact on almost every aspect of our lives by changing even the simplest of them. “A fixed mindset person believes our abilities are craved in stone” (fixed) whereas “a growth mindset person believes that our basic qualities can be cultivated through effort” (Mindset). Carol Dweck - psychology professor at Stanford University - explains that those two mindsets, which we manifest from an early age, dictate our behaviors, and determine our success or failure in

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