Wednesday, October 3, 2012

Fixed Mindset vs Growth Mindset


There are two types of people in this world, people with a fixed mindset, which take almost every situation and look at it as if it’s a determinate of how much their worth. Where people with a growth mindset look at situations in their life and see it as a way to improve their life or raise their worth. Personally I am someone with a fixed mindset, I almost always take situations in my life and make myself feel as if because of them, I am somewhat at less of an opportunity than others. I feel as if a lot of people in college or around my age have a fixed mindset. We look at failure and see it as were never going to get better or we can’t, while people with a growth mindset look at failure as a way to improve themselves. I believe this has a lot to do with the idea of 10,000 hours. People with a growth mindset tend to apply the 10,000 hours to their work because they let failure motivate them, but people with a fixed mindset tend to not apply the 10,000 hours because once they fail they feel as if there is no improvement needed. People with a fixed mindset feel as if they always have o prove that they are naturally smart, without actually having to put any effort into it, while people with a growth mindset nurture their intelligence and let their hard work speak for itself.

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