My Mindset Spring Blog Post 1
My educational journey has taught me as much about myself as the material and knowledge learned in my degree field. Reflecting upon Carol Dweck's presentation on mindset, I believe I have a blend of the growth and fixed. I have always considered intelligence to be a separate trait from apt to learning. Alike to Dweck's comments on growth mindset, I valued the effort put towards academics. Despite believing I can improve through perserverance, there have been moments that my fixed mindset wasn't harmful. I agree with Dweck that anyone can learn more efficiently with a growth mindset. However, I believe some people are naturally gifted in different cirriculums. For example, I have never studied for a math test and put little effort towards learning it. Yet, I am always the student with the highest math grade. I was fortunately not a victim of stereotype threat as found in "Problems in the pipeline: Stereotype threat and women's achievement in high-level math course