Thursday, January 14, 2010

Mindset

1) according to the reading i believe i am part of the growth mindset. hopefully i am part of it either way like the blog said the person of a fixed mind can become a growth mindset. now with this knowledge that i have i can prevent my self from becoming a fixed mindset. a reason why people might be in the fixed mindset is because they do not the existence of the other type of mindset. well i believe i am a growth mindset because because i take my twin brother beating me in certain academic areas as a challenge for me to improve my own abilities. the quesion i ask my self is that we both are twins and should have the same capabilities as each other, but through out time i have come to the conclusion there are factors in our lives that change the way we think. that is why i think i am a growth mindset.
2) well my mindset has helped me in math because i ask why something works like that. that question has led me to read sometimes the book to get more of an understanding than the one had before.
3)it is not surprising that the brain is a muscle that can be trained because i have wondered why do babies the capacity to learn so much in a short period of time. the progress must be because of the constant attempts and failures of the babies.
4)well this knew piece of information would help me identify the people who have the problem and probably help them realize what they are doing and how they grow mentally.