When look at the word mindset, I do not understand it. I
looked it up in dictionary; the dictionary told me a mindset is a person’s
attitude about something. After viewing the videos, I knew that the growth
mindset is a process that people can develop a strong brain and a solid
confidence.
Here is my personal experience about growth mindset. I do
not have any learning experience of high school, middle school, and elementary
school because I did not grow up in the US. However, my very first feeling of
the US college education system was comfortable; actually I think it was way
too comfortable. During the general education period, some courses are easy-A
courses. I absolutely joined in the comfortable army; I spent no time outside
the classroom, and I think most people did the same. However, I found
situations changed very fast when I reached the junior level in the Price
College of Business. I need to finish a degree candidacy to be admitted to take
upper level courses; the application did require a stronger GPA, which some
careless students might not have. As a result, when I went to Price, I did not
see some familiar faces. Class grading changed as well; most of the upper level
courses were graded based on where your grade was ranked in a class. An average
B grades was the most popular way, but some professors DO NOT adjust grades,
which was the reason I failed in the Legal Study of Business course. Such
frustration was a valuable experience for me; I re-take the course and I started
to learn very hard and I got A’s from some hard courses like Investment. I am
currently thinking about taking an MIS major since it is very challenge major
and has a great job secure. I can make it for sure if I keep working hard on
it.
In China, students learn from frustrations, but almost
nobody encourages us. In the US, encouragements and rewards are very common,
but frustrations are rare. If frustrations and encouragements could be combined
together, I think educations in both countries can be much better. Carol Dweck
has a really good foresight on this.
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