Growth Mindset: Week 15

Applying the growth mindset theories has many opportunities for application in life. The biggest and perhaps the most important aspect is to apply these challenges to work. A job takes up the largest part of a persons life and is essentially our purpose in life. Practicing growth mindset at work could help keep your job interesting so that it doesn't get as boring as fast. It could also make you work more efficiently, opening doors for promotion and advances.

Choose between fixed or growth mindset

Growth Mindset: Week 12

For this week's growth mindset challenge I decided to do the challenge of talking to a friend about growth mindset. I talked to my roommate about the subject at hand. He told me that he doesn't do much now with it but when he was a freshman here he used to try different study techniques. He told me that he has found the best way that he can study which is in a room alone with low music and no distractions. I talked to him about writing and reading challenges. He told me his major doesn't require him to read or write much so he doest have to try new things for that.

Growth Mindset: Week 12

The mindset project I am reflecting on the challenges presented by different classes and how I go out them. I am in six hours of microbiology lecture classes where I just go to class and listen to what is said. The only grades in those classes are the exams. I usually start preparing for the exams three days before the exams where I just go over the material covered in lectures. I am also in six hours of chemistry labs. Most of the grades come from lab reports or pre lab quizzes. There are also practicals and finals that I study for in the same way as the lectures. The only other class is this one. At first I wasn't sure how this class would work or how best to work for this class. I've found that throughout the semester it is best to work on this class in the evening when I am getting tired so my mind is out of the science way of thinking and I can be more creative.

Very Studious

Growth Mindset: Week 11

The growth mindset I worked on for this week is the reading challenge. I read an entertainment type story this week instead of a myth type story. I prefer reading the myth type stories because they tell more of a story behind the story. I didn't like the entertainment type story because it was more challenging to come up with a story for it. I also read a story out of the UNtextbook in a different location. I was sitting outside and read one of the stories about nature and it helped me to think of the story in a different aspect. Reading outside made me think of the story in a more entertainment way instead of like work as it does when I am in a studious environment. This could help me out in classes like this where I don't have to think of the material in such a stern way.

Somewhere I would like to study

Growth Mindset: My views

This is the first time I have heard of Carol Wreck and the Growth Mindset. Her views are interesting and very extreme. I believe they are interesting because they are very different from the views I have. I see myself having a growth mindset because I love learning new things that I am interested in and would further my knowledge to help me benefit in some way. The main thing I have learned about myself while learning at OU would be that I have to see something to learn it. I can not remember anything near as well if I just hear it. I've also learned that I have to learn in studious environment and can't be in a living space or on something to comfortable or I'll lose focus. I'm interested in hearing about the growth mindset and the theories behind it. I don't believe I will be very inclined to use the methods though. I am enrolled in many interesting classes this semester but the class I am most excited about would have to me Pathogenic Microbiology and Infectious Diseases. This is the type of microbial field that I would like to get into so I'm excited to learn more about the topics under the course. I pretty much have it down for how I need to study and prepare for exams in that type of class but would life to learn new styles of learning in my classes where papers and projects are the main focus.

Useful Sails from David Crystal