Janai Church
English 100 April 26,2017 I have always been the type of person that believes one can achieve anything in life, and grow to a higher level in any situation, whether it’s educational, athletic, or even cooking, My mother always instilled in me that you're only as great as you say you are. She also taught me to believe in myself, so I kept her message in the back of my mind, that hard work pays off and I can progress and become successful at any subject I put my mind to.. I was taught at a very young age to have a growth mindset. A growth mindset is limitless with learning new things intellectually, and can be developed over time. Believe you can work towards progression and ascertaining positive results when the reality is your ability measures success and you choose to have a growth mindset through setting goals that meet with being successful. Having a growth mindset has helped me learn as a college student here at Delaware County Community College, because I have confidence in my learning abilities, and I am committed to the process of developing higher cognition through increased reading and resources. A growth mindset has helped me learn as a college student because I have a strong belief in my learning abilities and I have committed more to my process of making knowledge. Now a fixed mindset is when you set limitations on what you can get better at because the belief is that you are born with talents and intelligence, when you’re not and you can't practice them to become better.. Also setting limitations on growth, means you can't make progress even if you’ve tried. However this isn’t true. You can expand and adapt to new things by being consistent in achievement and changing the mindset of expecting everything to be easy or just given freely. Just the assumption that if one doesn’t see results right away gives the impression that it can’t be accomplished. The brain is a muscle that grows with learned determination...it gets weak without being cognitively challenges. “A fixed mindset believe that intelligence is a fixed trait, think of an eye color they believe you're born with a certain amount of intelligence and you can't do much to change that, people with a growth mindset think of intelligence more like a muscle they understand that when you put in effort and challenge yourself you can get smarter”(Dec,2014 Growth Mindset vs. Fixed Mindset). For example learning how to read begins as early as the womb. A mother can channel language in vitro via reading to her unborn child. Then you learn in kindergarten, at around age five. It takes practice, over and over again. It’s not easy at first, but after a period of practice and working hard, eventually positive results do occur. A year later you gradually progress even more and so forth. It takes time in becoming successful. Nothing happens overnight. I would say making time has impacted progress for my success. I needed to set a time to work on the things I wanted to excel such as taking the necessary steps towards obtaining my degree as a registered nurse. I've always wanted to become a registered nurse, but I was getting in the way of my own success. I had become lazy because I didn't want to work hard but wanted achievability. I always struggled in math during my high school years so that was a fear I always carried in the back of my mind, knowing that I would need to take a few additional math classes during my nurses training. However, I got over those fears by believing I can pass the classes through practicing and studying the materials I needed to get to the next level. Here at Delaware County Community College they have tutors in the learning commons to help students in any subject. Even though math is a struggle, I believe in myself that I will get through it. Well known psychologist Carol Dweck has a technique that says, “ if you get the grade not yet you understand that your on a learning curve.” Giving you the courage that you can do it, you have to believe that you have what it takes to grow. I have been signing up and going to tutoring, over this past year and I have seen progress. Being as though we have the opportunity to seek help, I'm taking full advantage of it by going to tutoring. The more I work at it, the easier it is to understand. I have become more successful in my math class. In the video The Power of Believing You Can Improve (Carol Dweck, TED Talk). Dweck mentions the word “yet”. The synonyms for yet are: so far, thus far, as yet, up till/to now, until now. That gives you the confidence that you can do it, even if you fail at first you still have the abilities to get it right. This goes hand in hand with having a growth mindset, you aren't where you want to be yet! Also giving you the thoughts that you can improve and become better. A belief that you can learn and improve your intelligence neuroplasticity. Neuroplasticity is your brain can grow, adapt with repetition of repeated steps, when you do something new your pathways become stronger. Growth and fixed mindsets has been studied for years. Scientist believed up until now that your brain didn’t grow after childhood years but now recent studies show that your brain can actually grow and obtain new information. Years ago scientist believed that after childhood years your brain had learned all that it could but recent studies show that your brain can and will grow. “The brain can and does change throughout our lives it is adaptable like plastic hence neuro scientist call this neuroplasticity” (2014 De Fretes, Koen, Free). There are billions of pathways that light up every time you think, have a feeling or do something. They travel and become habits by the way we think, feel or do something. By repeating something over and over again your brain will adapt to what its learning. “Repetition is the mother of learning, the father of action, which makes it the architect of accomplishment.” (Ziglar, 2014) As well in life I work with children and have children of my own so I feel it's my job to take the necessary steps to find time to study. I try to come on my days off from work while my children are in school, after getting an assignment that I need help with. I have been signing up and going to tutoring, over this past year and I have seen progress. The more I work it becomes more understanding. I am acquiring success,. The more you do something over and over again, you become better at it. Having this growth mindset is dependent on you. I was taught to have a growth mindset. My mom told me when I was a child, that I would be successful. Its funny because I always wanted to be a nurse as a child and my mom pushed me to believe in myself. Even if i wasn't successful at first I never gave up. I remained hopeful and here I am, going after my dreams making them reality. You have to be willing to put in the effort to be successful. According to Dweck says ‘They understood that their abilities could be developed”. The amount of effort you put in will net the results you seek. In class we made a list of things on basic procrastination (how we spend our time and when given work assignments do we start them immediately with just a week to complete). Prior to taking this particular class I always procrastinated with most of my assignments. Mainly because it was boring and I lacked focus, but for the most part I didn't plan out or have a schedule. I usually did them the night before. Now I write out what my plans are for the week, including work, cooking, outings with the kids, studying/homework and me time. Since I have started doing this I have become more successful and I believe that I complete chores in a timely matter verses always rushing to get it done. I also set out time to do my work, which makes a big difference in how im learning. We can all improve through effort. Growth mindsets is of all cultures, no one is excluded! We all have what it takes to expand our learning, some just need that extra push. I believe that having a growth mindset rests upon your belief system. An open mindset ready to be nurtured falls into the growth mindset whereas the sky's the limit and we strive to reach that plateau through learned information and the ambitions we apply and obtaining that information. On the other hand the fixed mindset is stagnant and limits our ability to think (outside the box) and we close ourselves from learned knowledge.
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