Growth Mindset: Growing your writing style

This week when writing my storytelling post I expanded to trying a new type of writing. At the beginning of the semester our professor gave me an idea of taking a country song a writing a story to the music. So I decided that this was the week to give it a try. This past week I have had three songs on replay. One of the songs was Love Triangle by Raelynn. This song was stuck on my brain when I was trying to read through the stories this week. Once I got to the story tattle coat I couldn't get the song off my brain. I then came to the realization that the song was about being split between parents, and the story was about not having parents around. This is when I realized it was my week to try something new. I think my new story writing idea went pretty well. I have some wording that doesn't flow real smoothly, but I am definitely trying to work on it. I think it went over so well that it will be the next story I add to my portfolio. I am just going to wait and see what the feedback is from my classmates this week.

 

Raelynn

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by: Justin Higuchi

Growth Mindset Memes

For this weeks growth mindset challenge I made my own meme. I am trying to grow in a social aspect of life. That is why I made this meme. When in classes I don't like asking for help because I am not a very social butterfly. One of my friends told me it just takes stepping outside of your comfort zone to grow in that area. This is my goal to work on for the rest of the semester that will help me grow academically but also give me a skill I can use for the rest of my life.

Link Growth Meme
by Ashley Hannah

Growth Mindset of connections

By: Laura Gibbs Blog

How all this new information is making me feel.

I was looking through the gallery of Growth mindset memes and came across this one. I really thought this was fitting to my week. I have been working on a lot of work this week and I feel like my brain is piecing all of the work in my classes together to form the connections between each subject. It is also making connections between internship offers that I have been receiving. That is why I picked this meme for my growth mindset challange. 

Week 8 Growth Mindset

After reading through this lesson I found out that I have some areas that I am strong in and some areas that I am weak in. First I will talk about the areas I think I am strong in. One thing I believe I have a lot of is finding motivation myself. I don't like having to look to other praise for rewards. I think you have to be self motivated enough to do your own work. I spend a lot of my time worrying about my grades instead of worrying about learning the material. I try to always push myself to go further but sometimes it doesn't always work. In this class I try to stay inside my comfort zone.  I can work on this by the way I write my stories for this class. I am already mentally preparing myself for things to change. In life I know there are a lot of changes that are fixing to happen and I am already working on mentally preparing myself for those changes. I am taking a long term view in life by trying to figure out where I want to be in 5 years. I am doing this by finding internships for next summer hat I believe will get me ready for the next few years. I really need to start asking more questions through out all my classes. I really need to focus on how to improve my skills and this will definitely help. I think I should work on my questioning skills this next part of the semester. I also need to start coming out of my comfort zone in my classes.

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I know I can improve.

By:Laura Gibbs Blog

Growth Mindset Meme

Entering a New world

By: Laura Gibbs, Link: kittens

I really like this meme because to me this is completely true. You have different mindsets for each thing that you do. For example my mindset changes from when I am working on my engineering home to when I am working on my business homework or even this homework. Each subject takes a different mindset.Each mindset you use will take you into a new world. That is why I like this meme because it describes the way I have to handle my school work. 

Growth and mindset

Before this class I had never heard of Carol Dweck or Growth and mindset. From her videos I learned that if I don't do well on a test don't see it as I fail in that subject, it's the fact that I don't understand that subject yet. It made me feel stupid when I wouldn't do as well as my friends on tests. In my experience I have not done well on tests. After the first test I didn't do well on I didn't think I could do well in the class much less on the next exam. After watching this video i look at those exams as subjects I didn't understand. I just needed to get a better grasp of the information. If I would have had this mindset before now I might have been able to do better in some of my classes. Her second video reminded me of high school. In high school I took AP classes but to me the classes I was taking were just a waste of time because I really wasn't learning anything. When I got to college I really regretted the fact that I didn't ever study in high school. I think these are things that high school kids should watch. I really can't wait to learn more about growth and mindset. I hope to use this process in numerical methods because I am really worried about this class.  

Which road will you take?

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