Exploring the Growth Mindset
Growth vs Fixed Mindset After listening to the TED talk, I realized I had never really considered the idea of a growth mindset. I knew the general ideas talked about, but I didn't realize there was a term for it, let a lone a term full of studies behind it. In my elementary school, I remember being given tests that were purposefully too hard for us. Little did I know this was a growth mindset test. Even in a class I've taken at OU, we were never given failing grades (grades below a 50%). To the professor, it was more of a fair assessment that he could see we were trying and grasping some of the concepts even if we didn't quite have a hold on the whole thing. I see this is being extremely beneficial. The most I've ever learned has been from being challenged. Over the summer, I had my first internship doing IT work in a field I had never really experienced before. I was doing data management for a private oil and gas company that had me working projects I had zero e...