Growth Mindset

After looking through some of the videos of Carol Dweck, I decided to talk about Growth Mindset in my own opinion. To me, Growth Mindset means accepting your own flaws and adopting habits that are healthy to build on your flaws to make yourself become stronger mentally. An example of how i am incorporating growth mindset in my life is when i am applying for jobs. Last year, i was applying for countless internships and jobs and would get rejected from every single company i applied for and that began to affect my self confidence. My friends would keep telling me the typical "You'll get something" statements but it still would not help. It wasn't until I talked to a coworker of mine that he told me these words: "Every No you get always leads you a step closer to a Yes". When he told me that, the following week I finally found what would be the company that I ended up interning for this summer.
       Besides that, another example could be social media, in particularly Facebook. There's an option on the platform called "Memories" and you can see all your posts and friends you made on a certain day and year. Looking back, I see posts that remind me of how i was 5 years ago or slightly less and think about how different i am now. I found her concepts to be knowledgeable and made me want to learn more about growth mindset and fortunately, you can always acquire growth whether physically or mentally and become a better version of yourself in the future. While at OU, i learned that it is ok to make mistakes and fail because you are not the only one who has experienced failure but instead of dwelling on past failures always use those past failures to better prepare yourself for a sweet taste of success and everything else that a person wants to receive in life.
                   

                                                    Barron, Jolene: 3rd Grade / Growth Mindset
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