Nurturing a Growth Mindset to succeed
I have always been one to keep to myself. I wouldn't consider myself a complete introvert, but when it comes to school I tend to show up to class, go home and do my work without much interaction between classmates and my professors. While reading Carol Dweck's book Mindset: The New Psychology of Success I realized how destructive this attitude was to my success in classes. As far as my intelligence I had a very fixed mindset. As Dr. Dweck explains it a fixed mindset it believing that our attributes and abilities are fixed, not able to grow or diminish. She outlines that one symptom of having a fixed mindset is the fear of proving to yourself and others that you are not as great as you might appear to be or believe yourself to be. I never thought myself to be the smartest in a classroom, but I do hold the fear that someone might decide that I am not very smart due to a dumb question I asked or a concept I am not understanding. This resulted in my attitude of keeping to myself, a