After watching Carol Dweck's Ted talk and her other short video, I find myself completely agreeing with what she had to say about how children in America are taught and how they are rewarded for the wrong reasons perse. Before watching these videos I had never heard of Carol Dweck, nor have I ever specifically heard of Growth Mindset. I have heard of similar approaches, but never knew it had a specific name. On the spectrum of the growth or fixed mindset, I don't know exactly where I fall. I like to believe that I am always up for new challenges and pushing myself to learn about things I had never even thought about. In that case, if that really is true then I believe I fall under the growth mindset (I do have my lazy days though where I probably prefer the fixed mindest....we all can't be perfect all the time). While being at OU, I have learned that sadly I do find happiness not necessarily in the challenges of some of my classes but rather in the outcome of my grade from those challenges. I feel like GPA in college is such a big deal so no matter the challenges we face in classes or the challenges we don't face, in the end, we college kids, especially myself reward ourselves on the final grade. With that being said I am taking organic chemistry 2 this semester and that class is something that is just incomprehensible to me, but I will need to focus to accept the challenge of the class and face is head first and accomplish myself day by day rather than just by my final grade.
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