Self-Improving Skills

Sophomore year instead of trying out for the team, the night before I walked up to my dad and said I don’t want to play basketball anymore. Just like that I had given up and quit on something that I could’ve just put a little work into and would’ve been great. A fixed mindset has a serious impediment on a student's learning. Students who don't apply themselves to their school work won't be able to adapt to school as it increasingly becomes more difficult. Throughout my life, I’ve had both fixed and growth mindset, but after reading Dweck’s Mindset, I have learned about how I can apply the growth mindset into my life and improve myself all around. My mindset is all about how much I want to apply myself. If I put my all into everything, I can do nothing but grow into an astonishing human being. Applying the growth mindset into relationships by being more forbearing with people. Being open to different business strategies and merging ideas together or to simply have faith in yourself when things go wrong. Mindset is all about how much you want something and if you put your all into something success will

First, a growth mindset can keep improving due to challenges. For instance, Duckworth presents how a growth mindset can keep improving,“ Dr Dweck has shown that when kids read and learn about the brain and how it changes and grows in response to challenge, they’re much more likely to persevere when they fail, because they don’t believe that failure is a permanent condition.” (Duckworth 5:09). This shows, that even a student who has a growth mindset does not succeed, they are inspired to keep improving. In addition, in an article written by Achieve, presents the concept of how an incredible man conserved his growth mindset, “[Milt Campbell] maintained a positive outlook throughout his final days”(“Dream Believer”). This shows that when

People have learned to be resilient in order to overcome serious hardships. A person’s resilience can be seen through how they handle bad experiences; to be resilient in the face of adversity. People who never give up and always fight back even when it gets hard are resilient. Some believe that resilience is a trait that can be learned.

like not being able to recognize failure, which results in the loss of purpose as well as the loss of willingness to improve. By not being able to deal with failure, one’s life can be put to a stop and lead them on a bad path. One must be able to recover from failure and see that failure is only a stepping stone to a better and brighter future. Failure is difficult to recover from and often leads to more failure, but it is not impossible to recover from. With resilience and drive, a person who understands what failure is, is able to conquer it.

Intelligence can be developed through experience and learning. In Carol S. Dweck’s who is in fact a PhD expert in the field of psychology wrote an article, “Transforming Student’s Motivation to Learn,” she states, “Results showed that what students believe about their brains - whether they see their intelligence as something that’s fixed or something that can grow and change – has profound effect on their motivation, learning, and school achievement.” Essentially what this is illustrating is that having a fixed or growth mindset can minimize students from being terrified of failure and in addition faced and embrace their challenges rather than running from them. Students need to understand an intelligent mindset is a paramount pathway in becoming successful, and eventually one needs to not be easily discouraged at the first sight of a challenge, but become motivated and driven by failure, and in turn willing to work harder to accomplish something they want to succeed at. A perfect example of this is through Mike Rose’s school experiences, we can see how he demonstrates the concepts of a growth and fixed mindset.

Resilience has been topic that we have learned and are discussing in my English class. When you can overcome hardships faster and easier when you are more resilient person. We have been analyzing an article called “The Science of Bouncing Back” by Mandy Oaklander. Oaklander discusses methods of many people on their experience, becoming a more resilient person. People respond to emotion and hardships in their life differently, and people with more struggles overcome it more gradually, and Mandy Oaklander made me consider the possibilities resilience has, and can offer in everyday life.

The article focused on how student’s mindset had a huge role in how they did in their classes and outside in the real world. The two different mindset were, a fixed-mindset and a growth-mindset. A fixed-mindset described kids that believed that one was born gifted, however a growth-mindset was used to describe kids who believed you could grow and expand your knowledge. The author claimed that kids with a growth-mindset become more successful because they learn how to solve their problems. In a study that the author participated in and was run by Lisa Blackwell of Columbia university and Kali H. Trzaskowski of Stanford University, they found that kids with a growth-mindset felt that it was more important to learn than to get a good grade. With

Dweck espouses the virtues of a growth mindset and explains how it can help people overcome challenges in their lives. On the other hand, Alfie Kohn, does not fully agree with Dweck’s point of view. He argues that a student’s confidence in themselves is not based off of if they see themselves as dumb or smart, but rather how they have done in that area in the past. Though both researchers have opposing points of growth, they both agree that a student is far more likely to succeed if they set a goal a work towards rather than giving up entirely.

We learn from Carol Dweck’s book, Mindset: The New Psychology Of Success, that there are two different mindsets: the fixed and the growth. When you have a fixed mindset you think it is set in stone what your qualities and intelligence are. You usually lack motivation to try again, usually try to avoid challenges, they tend to ignore criticism; even if it’s just constructive, and they often feel threatened by other people’s success. A growth mindset is when you believe you can grow your basic qualities. You usually pick yourself back up when you get knocked down, embrace the challenges that are thrown at you, learn from criticism, and see the success of others as a form of learning.

Dweck’s work shows that students with a “growth mind-set” — those who believe that intelligence is not fixed but is expandable through effort and practice — are more likely to keep trying when faced with a challenge, and ultimately more likely to succeed, than those who are convinced that intelligence is something you’re born

This week in the field I gained more experience because of being in the office longer than what I normally am during the other weeks. One of the tasks completed this week was helping Vanessa’s coworker find different agencies that would assist with bathroom modifications within her client’s home. The client is disabled and is currently in a wheelchair, which their caregiver was having trouble getting the client inside of the bathroom. This is that the doorway was narrow; making it impossible for the caregiver to roll the client in the bathroom. By helping Vanessa’s coworker find different agencies, I was able to strengthen competency skill 9. Together, she and I were able to proactively refer the client to community resources that would assist the client with the best services to have the modifications made to the bathroom entry.

Ross A. Rosenberg, Rosenberg presented a variety of time management strategies for an individual to employ in their everyday life in order to be successful (Rosenberg, 2016). One tip I plan to use when it comes to my time management is to be resilient. At times there are assignments that I am given and have no idea on how to complete it. Yet, enabling resilience to similar situations in the future will allow me to overlook the problems at hand. As explained by Rosenberg (2016), there is more to resiliency than just an individual’s intelligence and accomplishments; it includes having strength and not backing down when faced with difficult tasks. I believe that resilience will

Employing a growth mindset will allow students to achieve bigger goals and overcome challenges with greater ease. Regardless of which direction a person chooses to take, they will require common skills such as collaboration, responsibility, honesty, or preparation. The purpose of school is to aid students in developing and improving important aspects of their characters, so that they can become well-rounded, productive individuals. In order to successfully navigate through my academic experience, I hope to keep a growth mindset which will allow me to take on new experiences and overcome obstacles. By keeping my options open and having a willingness to always learn from difficulties and mistakes, there will be more benefits in store for me. Nowadays, a great deal of students view their education as brutal competition where their grades are the only thing that matter. Those who struggle or make mistakes are regarded as unintelligent and as a result, students shun challenging situations to avoid the risk of failing. Keeping this kind of mindset in turn restricts and reduces the creativity and enthusiasm students have for learning. To nurture eager and resilient learners, we should be accepting of failure, and consider the learning and working differences each student

Resiliency is the ability to bounce back from a difficult situation. Naturally, there will be good and bad days for a runner. One day the person could be hitting all of their times and feel great. A couple days later, the runner could experience a bad workout and not be satisfied with what he or she has accomplished. If that person has resiliency and is able to endure the bad days, the effort that is put will result in a positive outcome.

Teaching individuals to develop growth mindset will encourage the “process” and not on talent or intelligence. Teachers and parents can make children develop growth mindset by praising their strategies and persistence, by giving them stories that emphasize on effort and the Importance of learning, and teaching the students that a brain is a learning tool or machine (Gupta, et al., 2012). The society is currently worshipping talent and individuals assume that having the ability or superior intelligence with confidence is one way of succeeding. Overemphasis on talent or intelligence leaves students prone to failure, afraid of challenges and they are not ready to accept their shortcomings (Taylor, et al., 2014). Praising innate abilities of children, reinforce fixed mindset, which can prevent people in workforces or young athletics and even the married people to live up to their potential. By teaching students to have the growth mindset encourages them to use their personal effort and come up with effective strategies and not talent or intelligence which will help them to achieve highly in life and even in school. As theories suggest, students who have growth mindset believes that learning is the crucial goal than performing well in school with good grades. Hard work is highly regarded, believing that if you labor on something, it will lead to perfection. Even the geniuses have to put