Pranali Patel's Blog

I chose to complete the growth mindset challenge from the list My main point I wanted to get across was we should continue to learn new things, challenge ourselves, and think 'not yet' rather than having a fixed mindset. First I asked my friend if he had heard of the Growth Mindset, he said he had not. Then I told him what it was, how 'not yet' and the way you keep your mindset can really change your life. Being in college, it is really important to not feel like you failed because college is not easy. I told my friend to have a growth mindset and think of 'not yet' rather than I can't do it. He said he was going to use the growth mindset not just in college but also in his life. He wanted to learn to do tricks on his skate board but he had fell many times trying to do the tricks so he stopped trying new ones and just sticked to what he knew. I told him how the video mentioned when we aren't trying new things are brain is not really being used, you...

Growth Mindset can really change everything for a person. It can make a big difference in a person's life. You can use Growth mindset for everything in life, you can use it for school or your personal life. I really enjoyed  Carol Dweck's videos, I had not heard of her before but she is very positive and I think that is how everyone should be in order to achieve great things in life. I have not heard of the growth mindset. Something I would do this semester is share what I have learned from growth mindset with someone else because I think this does not require much effort and it can really change someones mind on how they look at things. Sharing this can really bring a positive effect on a person's life. One thing I really liked from the shorter video was how teachers say "good job, was that easy for you?' to students and how that is not good. In middle school and elementary school I have heard this many times and when I did heard it, I told my self good job but I ...