Week 8 Growth Mindset

Hello World!! 

Growth mindset is something that we have spoken about before in this blog. The main concept of having a growth mindset is looking at failures in a positive light and learning them rather than attempting to beat ourselves up about our downfalls.

You know how we all have that little voice in or head's? Like the Marvin's voice for Dory is her conscience? When I was little my voice was always gnawing at me, and it always tended to exaggerate my flaws. My philosophy has always been, if you point out your flaws to yourself you will be able to work past them and find success. After a few years of doing this to myself constantly I realized I was completely wrong. I quickly found that talking myself up after things that didn't go my way helped so much more than trying to make myself feel terrible about everything that I couldn't do. I suppose I had discovered having a growth mindset was beneficial before even realizing that there was a name for what I had chosen to do. This small decision has allowed me to be able to accomplish things I had no idea I could do until I tried.

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When thinking about this class, I have realized that I do my best not stressing out about everything that I have to do helps me. I also do my best to not go crazy when I miss an assignment. I simply take a look at all of the extra credit that I can use to recover from my error. This allows my stress levels to drop.  I still feel that my time isn't being managed well, but since I do get everything done on time I am not going to take that as a terrible thing.

All in all, I am thankful that I had the ability and the chance to apply a growth mindset to everything that I chose to do in my life. It has helped me excel in ways that I didn't even know were possible. I highly recommend that you attempt to apply this to your own life. You will see a world of a difference.

Week 8 Reflections

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The past eight weeks have simply flown past. I didn't even realize that we had reached the halfway mark in the semester. It's a wonderful thing though. I used to have a teacher that always said, "Learning isn't occurring when you are counting down the minutes till the class ends. It is occurring when the bell rings and you didn't even realize time had gone by." I completely agree with his statement. I find that time went by so quickly because I learned so much in this class. 

I have never had to keep up with a blog or a website before, and being a Public Relations major I knew that having this special ability would allow for me to excel in my career. I found that there is a significant amount of hard work that goes into keeping up with all of these things. It was a very special learning experience for me, and I am very grateful for it. 

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 I feel that this class has helped me become a better writer as well. It has been a while since I have been able to simply write for myself. I have missed it. I truly do enjoy the critique that I get from other students as well as from the professor, herself. It helps me better understand what I need to work on. With something like writing there is always room for improvement, and since I am out of practice this class helped me even more. 

I really enjoy this class! I am glad that I decided to take it, and I am grateful that it is much better than what I had initially expected. I guess sometimes it is good to take the risk. IT might just work out in your favor.