project 3 rough draft
For project three, my teacher posted 4 students' essays together including mine and we had to give feedback to each other. By doing so I was able to not just give help but also receive some. I had to give feedback to three other classmates. This is the link to see all the comments https://docs.google.com/document/d/12-qAy5ZcPtWxr9F45O2mR479CKeIGJmOH83YUszJjfA/edit.
Essay 1: “Project 3”
Project 3
I don’t feel successful in life yet because I haven't achieved my goal to have a home and a good stable life. I am trying to put a lot of effort into school to try to get the best grades I possibly can. I was always told I'm smart and how if I use my brain I will succussed. Easier said than done. Every time I struggle, I just remind myself why I'm doing this, why I'm going to school. The main reason is because of my mom. She always told me she wanted me to get an education since she didn’t have one. My number one fear is to fail in school and not get the life I want. Maybe at the same time, I want to fail so I can get it over with. Why is failure a benefit?
Failure is a good way to learn from your mistakes and if I fail or struggle in school my fresh man year then I will know how to get through my sophomore year. I'm not the best in English but what I can't do in English I make up in math. I have always found math easier since it's working with numbers instead of words. I made a lot of mistakes in my English class which came out to be a good thing. If my teachers would have never pointed out my problems then, I would have never learned how to fix them. That’s why I think failure can be a benefit.
My exploration began with a “Test Your Mindset Quiz” that my English teacher assigned to the whole class. My results from the quiz didn’t surprise me. It said, “right now you are unsure about whether you can develop your intelligence, you probably care about performing well and you do want to learn but may think that achievement should come easily and feel a bit discouraged when you perform poorly at something.” I completely understand why I got the results I did. I always try to get a perfect grade in class. It's also true that if I get a bad grade, I get discouraged but honestly who wouldn’t.
My class also looked over Michael Banks' Exploratory Essay. Banks essay starts off with an introduction on the topic, Should the united states grant legal status to undocumented immigrant workers? He then goes on to tell us where he is from and his encounter with illegal immigrants. Banks talked about how he delivered food to immigrants looking for work and how they ran from him in fear to be deported. Banks said, “I often wondered how they could work with such low wages and still live a dignified life.” This says he doesn’t know how they can be paid a little amount and still be hard working. As the essay goes on Banks and his class has class discussion and assignments that he uses in his essay.
Reading his essay helped me understand what my next project will be like. Michael Banks' essay is a fitting example of an exploratory essay because Banks uses his class discussions and other assignments. Reading this essay lets me know the format to use and gives me a great idea of how project 3 will be like. Banks also tells us a bit about himself and his experience and made sure to tell us why he was interested in the topic. The way it was organized made me feel like I was also in the class.
Just like Banks' essay, my class read a lot of different articles like “Conquering the Freshman Fear of Failure” by David Kirp. Krips talks about how first-year students in college can conquer their fear. He gave us examples of what people are afraid of such as failing or not being smart enough. People who think low of themselves will struggle more than people who are not scared to fail. He then goes on to talk about experiments one on students and how a small present of people stay in school.
Before I read “Conquering the Freshman Fear of Failure '' by David Kirp, I thought exactly what he talked about. I would always think that I might not go to college for my 4 years. when I was about to start my first year of college, I would only think about how I'm going to fail and waste my money. I was scared to give up and drop out. But deep down I knew I couldn't just give up. I thought about how this might affect my dream job to be a detective. What if I change my mind?
After reading the article by David Kirp, I think that seeing how I'm not the only one who thinks they will fail makes me want to be in the small percentage of people who make it the whole 4 years of college. I want to have that feeling that I made it through college. I want to be able to tell people that it was hard, but my struggles made me a better student.
The next article I looked over was the “Don't fail fast, fail mindfully” speech by Leticia Gasca. Leticia talks about how it took her 7 years to talk to her friends about her failed business. After she confessed her failure, her friends also opened to her about their failure. Seeing how her friends were also failures, it made her feel better about herself and understand that everyone fails. Leticia then talks about how failing mindfully means to learn from the mistake and being aware of the lessons learned. I thought that keeping my failures to myself did not matter if I know what I did wrong. I always keep my failures to myself because I did not want to be embarrassed. I never thought about the faster I fail the faster I will learn from my mistakes.
After hearing Leticia Gasca's speech, I think I could start doing what she is advising on doing. She explains how to fail mindfully which means being aware of the impact, of the consequences of the failure of that business, and being aware of the lessons learned. I'm now starting to think about how if I tell my story's about stuff I failed in, then that can help someone else who has the same problem I have. For example, in a video game, If I could never defeat the boss level and I see my cousin or someone else struggling I can tell them how I failed and that will help him succeed by allowing him to avoid the mistakes I did
Before I read “Even Geniuses Work Hard” by Carol S. Dweck, I thought that smart people must have just had the gift. I used to always give up when something got hard because I didn't think I was smart enough to do it. In middle school I struggled a lot in class so I would always act up and be the class clown to distract myself and get my mind off the work I didn't understand.
After reading the article “Even Geniuses Work Hard”, I think that I made myself struggle in middle school. Instead of giving up, I should have told myself that I can do it. All I had to do was give myself a purpose as I do now. My purpose is to make my mom happy and succeed in life and feel that because I want to be someone in life, that pushes me to succeed in school
I found the article “You Can Grow Your Brain” was very informative to me. The title “You Can Grow Your Brain” refers to the brain being like a muscle. The title is simply saying that you can always learn new things and as you learn things your brain can grow. Scientists experimented on people who learned how to juggle, showed growth in an image of their brain. A lot of people say that they can't do math but in reality, it's just about putting effort into learning it. Studies prove that learning difficult math problems will help your brain grow.
I think this is true because it makes a lot of sense. you are challenging your brain and it only makes sense if it grows and gets stronger since it is a muscle. When someone works out their arms by lifting weights, they put stress on the muscle causing it to grow. It's not all about just lifting the weights, you also have to do it properly. If you don’t lift the right way, then you will just hurt your muscles. The same thing can be said about your brain. If you have a good strategy when it comes to problem-solving, then your brain will grow.
Works Cited
Banks, Michael. “Should the United States Grant Legal Status to Undocumented Immanent Workers?” My Comp Lab, pp. 50–56.
Dweck, Carol. “Even Geniuses Work Hard.” UA-PTC Composition Mix, edited by Erica Wnek. Norton. 2020. pp. 474-480.
Gasca, Leticia. “Don't Fail Fast -- Fail Mindfully.” TED, June 2018, www.ted.com/talks/leticia_gasca_don_t_fail_fast_fail_mindfully. Accessed 4 Nov. 2020.
Kirp, David. “Conquering the Freshman Fear of Failure” UA-PTC Composition Mix, edited by Erica Wnek. Norton. 2016. pp. 471-473.
“Test Your Mindset.” Mindset Works, 2006, https://blog.mindsetworks.com/what-is-my-mindset. Accessed 4 Nov. 2020.
“You Can Grow Your Brain.” an article published by Health and sciences, https://elearning.uaptc.edu/bbcswebdav/pid-3103140-dt-content-rid-19080505_1/courses/ENGL1311.02A.FA20/Grow%20Your%20Brain%281%29.pdf. Accessed 4 Nov. 2020.
Essay 2
Emajaui Braggs
Atkins-Gordeeva
Comp I
27 October 2020
Having A Growth Mindset Can Lead You To Success
No one is born smart or either dumb. Having a growth mindset helps you have the ability to eagerly want more. Having a growth mindset opens doors to higher levels of intellect, wisdom, experience, or performance in any field of interest. Having a growth mindset means you have an open mindset.
In class, my professor gave articles on explaining what a growth mindset is and how it could lead you to success. In the articles, they were mostly about a growth mindset: a belief that you are in control of your ability. You can improve and learn along the way. Having a growth mindset is the key to success. Hard work, effort, and persistence are all important, but not as important as having the belief and ability to know that you are in control of whatever comes your way. I decided to go more in-depth about having a growth mindset and how it could lead you to success. My exploration began with an article that my professor assigned to the whole class called “You Can Grow Your Brain”.
The article, You can grow your brain written by a scientist is very informative. It talks about the brain is a muscle and ways you can make it grow. The article gave evidence and reasoning on how the brain could grow. The article called "You Can Grow Your Brain" is very informative and interesting. The article was about ways to grow your brain and improve it in different skills. Your brain gains new muscles every time you learn something new. Evidence that is shown that your brain can grow is in the article when the author tested animals. Animals that were free and could play with other animals and animals that were locked in cages by themselves. In the article, it showed that animals that are free brains are much stronger than the animal that is locked in a cage. The animals that are free use their brain when trying to figure out things. LIke playing with toys, behaving with other animals, etc but the animal that is locked in the cage doesn't have much to do but eat and sleep, and they’re not using their brain. They also tested humans. The scientist also tested humans that didn't know how to juggle, They split the adults into two different groups. One group was learning how to juggle and the other group wasn’t learning how to do anything. When the results came it showed that the people who learned how to juggle brains were much bigger and stronger because they learned something which gave them an extra muscle in their brain from last time. The group that didn't do anything to the brain stayed the same. In the article, it says people weren’t born dumb or smart but with practice, you can learn to do anything. The more you learn and strategize your skills the stronger your brain gets and the easier things are to learn. This can even go with adults who struggle with math, It's a chance that they could still learn algebra. The only thing they have to do is exercise their brain.
This article was very informative and true. I always struggled with my writing but once I got into college and started to write more the easier it has gotten for me. The more I exercised my brain the more muscle I gained and the easier it became. I liked it when the article stated that no one was born smart or dumb because I always thought I was dumb in my English classes. Now I’m getting better day by day and finally achieving something I thought I couldn’t do. The article shows ways your brain can continue to grow as long as you are learning. Meaning having a growth mindset is still accurate.
My search continued with “Even genius work hard” written by Carol S. Dweck.`` It was a successful and informative ad because in the article it says people with a fixed mindset are people who believe they’re born with the knowledge. Dweck also mentions People with a growth mindset think things can be taught over time. Kids with a fixed mindset value to look smart they would not want to do anything that is too difficult or anything that would make them feel dumb. Dweck also explains Kids with a growth mindset tend to like challenging problems. To handle some of these problems teachers can ask their students some questions and have them write a letter. When introducing something new teachers should make it more exciting. When a strategy doesn’t work let the student explain what he/she was trying to do and then explain why it didn’t work. He also says Give them pre-test or homework so they can see how they improve. Dweck states when failing, give them a “yet” grade until they master it.
Dweck’s article shows how a Growth mindset could lead you to success. Having a Growth mindset when failings help you to use failure as a lesson. It shows how you could keep learning until you get it. The article also supports that kids with a growth mindset love challenges and the more they challenge themselves the smarter they become.
My search continued with an article written by Olga Khazan called “Find your passion is awful advice. Find your passion was a successful article because it explains a great reason why you shouldn’t have a fixed mindset but have a mindset of growth. In the article, a psychology professor asked undergraduates “How Many of You are waiting to find your passion?” Many people started to raise their hands because they all wanted to find their purpose. She said it doesn’t happen that way, Paul O’keefe stated if you do something that feels like work that means you don’t love it, meaning it’s not your passion. Gave an idea about a student that jumps from lab to lab trying to figure out who research topic is her passion, two mindsets one is fix theory, the idea that interest is from birth. The other is a growth theory, something anyone can cultivate over time. In the article, they did a test on some students, ask them questions then let them read an article, and their decision changed. Don’t buy into a fixed mindset because if something becomes too easy or difficult you’ll give up because you will assume that it’s not your passion. People with a growth mindset tend to not be afraid to fail. You can be interested in something but not be good at it.
This article shows examples of people with a fixed and growth mindset. The article gave little information about how a growth mindset could lead you to success. So It brought me closer to Dweck’s article. It didn’t give me enough information about what I needed. I like the example it gave about the scientist, it gave a clear example of a difference between a fixed and growth mindset.
Lastly, I watched a video called “Embrace Your New Win” spoken by Sarah Lewis. In the video, Sarah Lewis spoke about how success is like hitting that 10 rings. She also states that “The greater our proficiency the more we realize we don’t know all that we thought we did its called the Dunning-Kruger effect.” Lewis also says “The reason the near win has propulsion is that it changes our view of the landscape and puts our goal, which we tend to put at a distance, into a more proximate vicinity to where we stand”. A near win gets us to focus on what, right now, we plan to do to address that hill that we would soon have to climb. In the video, Lewis says “We thrive not when we have done it all but when we still have more to do”. Coming close to what you thought you wanted can help you attain more than you ever dreamed, we built on our formal idea even if that idea is our former self.
This ted talk was so amazing and informative it gave a real reason for how a growth mindset could lead you to success. In the video, Lewis tells us that “we thrive not when we have done it but when we have more to do. This shows that when you reach that successful point in your life having a growth mindset is still needed because the more you know the longer you’ll stay at the top of your mountain.
Reading and listening to this discussion on a growth mindset, I believe having a growth mindset is the reason people are successful. Every Individual with a growth mindset believes they are capable of learning nearly anything if they work hard and accept failures and challenges as opportunities to grow. So, that’s how a growth-mindset could lead you to success by believing in yourself and never giving up. Many successful people today are only successful because they believed and they never gave up.
Works Cited
Dweck, Carol. “Even Geniuses Work Hard.” UA-PTC Composition Mix, edited by Erica Wnek. Norton. 2020. pp. 474-480.
Lewis, Sarah. “Embrace the Near Win.” TED, March 2014.
“You Can Grow Your Brain.” Composition I, Instructor Jennifer Atkins-Gordeeva, Fall 2020, UA-PTC. Handout.
“‘Find Your Passion' is Awful Advice” —by Olga Khazan.
Essay 3: “How Can Failure Help Me Reach My Goals?”
How Can Failure Help Me Reach My Goals?
In my life, I feel very successful right now because I can do something most people aren't able to. I graduated high school and now I can further my education by attending college. I can work towards my future and some people aren’t able to do that. The reason I am in college right now is that I want to achieve my goal of having a degree. Someone once told me that no matter what you are majoring in, it's still good to have a degree of some sort. My overall goal in college is to graduate from the Baptist Surgical Technology program.
I have always made good grades in school but there have been many times where I have fallen short on an assignment. Earning a good grade in school, especially when I have worked very hard for it, feels rewarding. I gain a sign of relief once you find out that all your hard work has paid off. You can guess that failing in school feels the complete opposite. I get very down on myself and I always think about what I could have done better. Failing is the worst feeling but you can learn from your mistakes and move forward. This brings me to my question of how can failure help me reach my goals?
My search began with “Test Your Mindset” which is a quiz the teacher assigned to the whole class that determined if you had a growth mindset or a fixed mindset. This quiz asked a series of questions and gave me a scale to see if I disagreed or agreed with the statement. In the end, the Test Your Mindset quiz told me that I seek challenges and perform at a high level, but sometimes I feel uncomfortable with criticism even if well-intended or be rather hard on myself for the mistakes. My growth mindset says that I want to do well, but it’s more important to learn than to always do well. People with a growth mindset see failure as a part of the learning process.
My search continued with “You Can Grow Your Brain” which was published by Health and Science. According to the article, “when you think about what intelligence is, you might think that a person is born either smart, average, or dumb—either a “math person” or not—and stays that way for life” (you). They did different experiments to show how your brain grows every time you learn something new. Scientists conducted an experiment where "scientists found a group of adults who were not jugglers. They taught half how to practice juggling in the right way. These people practiced for a long time and got much better a juggling. The other half didn’t practice and didn’t get better” (you). The scientist then scanned their brains and was able to tell that the people who learned how to juggle grew the part that controls juggling skills. This shows us how the brain is more like a muscle. The more you use it then the stronger it becomes. The article explains how juggle is a lot like math because “when you learn and practice new ways of doing algebra or statistics, it can grow their brains—even if they haven’t done well in math in the past” (you). They recommend finding a strategy that helps make the concept easier for you to understand.
I found the “You Can Grow Your Brain” article to be quite persuasive. Before reading this article, I thought your brain stays the same your whole life. Little did I know, your brain is just like a muscle, the more you use it the stronger it becomes. You aren’t born to be bad at a certain thing because the more you practice the better you become at it. For example, the more you practice a math problem the easier the concept gets. You can learn new strategies to figure out a problem. People that claim they aren’t a math person can become better at math if they find a certain way that works for them. This article proves that failure can help you reach your goals because, with practice, you can do anything you put your mind to.
My next article "Even Geniuses Work Hard" was written by Carol S. Dweck which explains how presenting a learning task that helps students develop a growth mindset within the classroom. Dweck states that "students with a fixed mindset do not like effort. They believe that if you have the ability, everything should come naturally” (475). They want teachers to have students share something they have struggled with and are not very good. By doing this, they want students to learn from each other's failures. Dweck implies that “students with a growth mindset are more likely to respond to initial obstacles by remaining involved, trying new strategies, and using all resources at their disposal for learning” (475). They believe students with a growth mindset are more likely to learn from their failure than students with a fixed mindset. Dweck says “students with a fixed mindset may feel threaten by learning tasks that require them to stretch or take risks” 475)(. They want to teach all students to love challenges and not be afraid of failure.
Both Dweck and the article published by Health and Science did a great job of explaining a growth mindset. I agree with everything Dweck was saying in the article. I agree that teachers need to teach kids a growth mindset in the classroom. This will lead to success in the future and I believe that kids won't give up so easily too. I think teachers need to put into consideration that each student is different which means they all learn differently as well. If they don't understand a certain concept that you taught them, then show them a different one. Cheer them on along the way and encourage them to never give up even when they are struggling. This will teach kids to not be afraid of failure because fear can stop us from moving forward and achieving our goals.
This article is called “Conquering the Freshman Fear of Failure” written by David L. Kirp, a professor at the University of California explains his freshman experience at Amherst College. He explains how he bombed his first test and was completely disturbed by it. He quickly found out that everyone failed because the professor had high standards. Kirp states that “freshman was introduced to research online showing that intelligence isn’t a static trait or the luck of the genetic draw but can grow through hard work” (472). Gregory M. Walton and Geoffery L. Cohen conducted an experiment where they tracked black students at a private university. They were able to say that they had participated in the same activities and by the time they graduated, their grades were higher than their peers. This showed that “undergraduates will be more engaged and fewer will drop out if universities adopt this two-pronged approach, giving students essential tools and making their success priority” (472).
I feel everyone’s fear when getting accepted into college is if they are going to fit with their peers or if they are going to do well academically. I like how Kirp started off this article with his own experience of being a freshman in college and talking about how he bombed his first test. He found out everyone did horrible on the test which made him feel better. I agree with Kirp because he explains how doubt can make students more likely to drop out and that universities need to make sure students are encouraged to keep on going in their education. As I think about this article, I ask myself how this article answers my question of how failure can help me reach my goals. I believe students can learn different ways of thinking that help them thrive. Being doubtful may make students want to drop out but with positive thinking and encouragement, I believe they will learn they can overcome any obstacle.
Lastly, I watched a video called “The Unexpected Benefit of Celebrating Failure” which is a TED talk spoken by Astro Teller who talks about failure from an engineer's point of view. He opens his TED talk with him saying "Great dreams aren't just vision; they are visions coupled to strategies for making them real" (Teller). He talks about different projects he had to quit because of different factors. One of the projects was in automated vertical farming. Teller explained how that had to come to an end because “one in nine people suffer from nourishment” (Teller). He explained how not every project that an obstacle didn’t have to come to an end. “Discovering a major flaw in a project doesn’t always mean that it ends the project” (Teller). Scientists make mistakes every day during experiments, sometimes they are fixable or sometimes they must end the project, but they never stop thinking about solutions that could have worked.
I agree that everyone can benefit from celebrating failure. You shouldn't be ashamed of telling others that you have failed because people can earn from your mistakes as well. I believe everyone should have to face failure because that's how you grow as a person. You shouldn't fear it because it's going to happen. You must just accept it and move forward. Just like a scientist, I hope for success but at the same time, I am questioning myself throughout the process. You are hoping everything goes as planned but you always have a gut feeling that things could go wrong. Scientists fail every day but that doesn’t stop them from reaching their goals. Astro Teller did an excellent job of explaining how we should celebrate failure instead of being down about failing.
After this search, I have learned many different points from these different articles. From learning how your brain works when learning new things. From helping students develop a growth mindset in the class that will prepare them for long-term success. From how doubt can make students want to drop out and those universities that need to make sure students have the right tools to keep them on track. Learning how not every project that has an obstacle doesn't mean that it's going to come to an end. I still have plenty of research to do on this topic, but I agree the most with Teller's point of view of celebrating failure. I believe failure can help you reach your goals because you can learn from your mistakes. Scientist learns from their mistakes and moves forward as we should too. We shouldn't fear failure because that’s part of the learning process. I believe you must go through failure to be able to reach your goals and when you do fail, don’t feel ashamed to tell others because they can learn from your experiences.
Work Cited
Dweck, Carol. “Even Geniuses Work Hard.” UA-PTC Composition Mix, edited by Erica Wnek. Norton. 2020. pp. 474-480.
Kirp, David. “Conquering the Freshman Fear of Failure” UA-PTC Composition Mix, edited by Erica Wnek. Norton. 2016. pp. 471-473.
Teller, Astro. “The Unexpected Benefits of Celebrating Failure” TED, February 2016. https://www.inspiringleadershipnow.com/celebrating-failure-unexpected-benefits/. Accessed 5 Nov. 2020.
“Test Your Mindset.” Mindset Works, 2006, https://blog.mindsetworks.com/what-is-my-mindset. Accessed 5 Nov. 2020.
“You Can Grow Your Brain.” Composition I, Instructor Jennifer Atkins-Gordeeva, Fall 2020, UA-PTC. Handout.
Essay 4
What If Giving Up Was Not an Option?
There is never a good reason to give up. It does not matter the circumstances. Everyone has those little chips on their shoulders that are telling them that it isn’t worth it and that they just need to give up. Giving up is never the right thing to do. It shows weakness, immaturity, and softness. All you have to do is keep fighting and going for what you are trying to accomplish. Once we find it in us to strive to succeed, we must strengthen our brain in order to have them as strong as possible. No one is born smart, but the more you challenge and strengthen your brain, the smarter you will be.
I believe we should always give everything we do our best shot. During a class quiz called “Test your Mindset,” my attention was really grabbed and pulled into the topic of how giving up is a mindset. I did some more research and watched a Ted Talk that was titled, “Don’t fail fast, fail mindfully.” This was a very informative speech that was spoken by Leticia Gasca. She greatly informed me that there are so many different mindsets that we can have as human beings, which I didn’t know was even possible to that extent. Before watching this speech, I really didn’t know that much about failure. I thought of failure as something that people just do frequently, and don’t give it much thought. When giving up is not an option, you have to know different strategies in order to succeed. This discussion brings forth some strategies that could be used to succeed, rather than giving up. After watching this speech, I realized that it was way better to fail mindfully and it is better for the mind. I have personally tried new things and failed at them many times. After watching this Ted Talk by Leticia Gasca, I feel like I can now focus on trying with strategies instead of jumping to conlusion and thinking that am just a failure.
Next, I would like to discuss how we can always use strategies to help us not fail, but we also need to take time to grow our brain muscles in order to use these strategies to the best of our ability. Did you know that the brain is a muscle and it has to be exercised and put to work just like any other muscle in order to grow? The brain is one of the strongest muscles in your body, and if you challenge it and exercise it, the nerve neurons will grow stronger and stronger. During extensive research, I came across an article by Carol Deweck titled, “Even Geniuses Work Hard.” This article was such an eye opener to me because beforehand I just thought that some people are born smart. Well, that is not the case. This article informed me on page 3 that even the smartest people still have to work hard and how it is very important that students know how smart they can be. On the second page, he mentions how students have to have a growth mindset. They need to be able to make goals for themselves in order to receive substantial brain growth. He also likes to replace the word success with the word challenge. If everyone is a challenge, then your brain wil always be being challenged. This is super important to the growth of the verve neurons. Now, before reading this amazing article, I believed that people were just born smart. I didn’t know that you had to push your brain and make it practice just like any other muscle. Next time you consider giving up as an option, remember that you can always grow your brain in order to have more knowledge and an expansion of education.
My final piece of research was a major eye opener as well, and it pulled me into an area of discussion that has baffled me for years. As a high school and even middle school student, I always felt like I wasn’t getting enough from school. I felt like I was learning lots of material, but it was just sitting there and not helping me become smarter. During my research I came across an article titled, “Debate Arise over Teaching/Growth Mindsets to motivate students.” This article was written by Lydia Densworth. Lydia brings up a point that is so important to me, and that point was how schools would be way more productive if they taught a growth mindset instead of a fixed mindset in the classroom. A growth mindset is having a mindset that you are always able to grow in an area. Your brain should be stretched and grown through certain material taught. Sadly, some schools are teaching more of a fixed mindset. This doesn’t allow the child any room for growth, and that is something that must be taught in order to gain the most benefit. After reading this article, I believe that this mindset should be taught at a young age in school, so students will already have this mindset installed into them at a young age. Mind growth is so important, and it must be practiced especially in a school setting where learning is always happening. I believe that if the correct mindset is taught and we inform all students that they must exercise their brain like any other muscle, then giving up would never be an option.
In conclusion and after lots of research, I have figured out that brains are an extraordinary thing. We must treat them correctly, and grow them correctly. Installing such a importan tmindset is crucial for proper brain growth. I think everyone in this world is capable of becoming as smart as they wish to be. As long as people challenge their brain and set goals for progress, I believe amazing brain growth will happen. The more our brains grow, the smarter we will be. The smarter we are, the less likely we are to give up. If giving up were not an option, it would challenge everyone to figure out issues, and brainstorm different ways to go about things.
Works Cited Page
Ted Talk by Leticia Gasca titled “Don’t Fail Fast, Fail Mindfuly”
https://www.ted.com/talks/leticia_gasca_don_t_fail_fast_fail_mindfully?language=en
Important Citation information - This Ted Talk was given by Leticia Gasca in June of 2018. It was published by TedTalk.
The Brain Growth article titled “Even Geniuses Work Hard” by Carol Deweck
Important Citation Information - This article was written by Carol Deweck and published by Educational Leadership.
The Article titled “Debate Arises Over Teaching, Growth Mindset, to Motivate Students” written by Lydia Denworth
Important Citation Information - This article was written by Lydia Hensworth on August 12th, 2019. It was published by Scientific American.
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