Mindsets and Achievement

• "The students with a fixed mindset believed that if you worked hard it meant that you didn't have the ability, and that things would just come naturally to you if you did."
• This is the exact mindset I remember having coming out of high school during the peak of covid. The discomfort of forcing the students to study at home and not live the actual college lifestyle.

How Do Students Learn These Mindsets ?

• "Instead of giving them confidence, it made them fragile, so much so that a brush with difficulty erased their confidence, their enjoyment, and their good performance, and made them ashamed of their work."
• While we are in school, teachers tend to sweeten things up, so that we feel better about ourselves. When in reality, all it is doing is deteriorating our brains and starting bad habits. We should be told how things really are to prepare us for the real world.

** Brainology**

• "Their studies and ours also found that negatively stereotyped students (such as girls in math, or African-American and Hispanic students in math and verbal areas) showed substantial benefits from being in a growth mindset workshop."
• Being stereotyped at a young age can be damaging to the brain, almost limiting the mindset because of your ethnicity sounds insane.

What Do We Value?

• "Most of all, teach them that by taking on challenges, making mistakes, and putting forth effort, they are making themselves smarter."
• We often think taking the easy route is the best, but in reality, when we work on more difficult situations it helps develop our brain and allows us to think thoroughly.

Having a fixed mindset is deciding to limit your brain to endless ideas. I believe all students should grow out of a fixed mindset and find their purpose. Being able to grow out of the fixed mindset might even show you how strong your brain really is or how easy it maybe to rewire it.