Week 13 Growth Mindset: LEARN FROM OTHERS

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I like to learn from others as everyone has a unique way to think about same question.

During this semester, I read a lot of tech tips from other's blog. Most of then are very helpful.

Moreover, I learn from my professors. They have developed a very successful way to do certain work. One example is my Commercial Banking professor; he likes to make plans to make everything clear.

Week 12: Growth Mindset

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Today I want to introduce a good method of time management I learnt from my Commercial Banking class. This strategy is making plan.

I sounds simple and it is simple. However, this simple method helps a lot. In the morning, I spend 5 minutes on making a plan for today. And in the whole day I follow my plan and do things efficiently. The time we can save will be much much more than the time we spend on making a plan.

This strategy is learnt from my professor Stock. He use plans to make his progress very clear and nobody gets confused about progress of the class.

Week 11 Growth Mindset

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This week I want to talk about persistence.

Accumulation has an infinite power. What I read from my economic book is that accumulation of knowledge is the primary factor of economic growth in the past and in the foreseeable future. 

If my goal is to shake this world by coding skills, I think I need to practice millions of times. It looks scary; however, when we think about practice 100 times a day, one year means 36500 times. If I keep going, I will eventually become the 1% of programmers.

Week 10 Growth Mindset

Giving up things sounds bad, but giving up some less competent fields is indeedly a smart choice.

We only have 24 hours, which is not much, so we want to use our time wisely. For the fields or majors you are not good at, you may let them go. We should do works that we can utilize our max power, and never waste time on inefficiency works. One approved evidence for this is that this sociality has workers in different industries; and they are good at their jobs.

I have been struggling with accounting for three years. Though I do not understand why finance major has that many required accounting courses, I am about to finish my last accounting course. Luckily account courses are not included in my major GPA. I could explain this to my future interviewers.

To sum up, spend your time on valuable targets. Do not waste time on things that others can do much better than you do.

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Growth Mindset of Week 2:READING CHALLENGE

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For this week, I tried to read other students' posts in two ways. One way is just the holistic reading, which is the default way that everybody reads. The other way is the analytical way. It was very hard to read a story like that because I always be attracted by the story itself. To solve this, I read the story from the end back to the beginning. This way did help me to focus on the elements that I need to analyze.
To sum up, I learnt a new way to read a story through a challenge.

Growth Mindset: Never Give Up

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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.