Growth Mindset

I have heard of the growth mindset before in some of the psychology classes that I have taken. I grew up with a fixed mindset. Fortunately, I have always done really well at school, and believed I had been “fixed” with an above-average intelligence. However, I experienced a lot of what that video talked about when I got to college. I never had to try in high school, I made excellent grades and received tons of awards without ever straining. When I got to college, that was not the case, and I had no idea how to study or handle the stress of classes that were challenging. I failed, and my grades dropped drastically. I almost ruined my chances of getting into medical school, and it’s because I had no idea how to deal with the challenges associated with failing in academics. I have adapted a growth mindset as my college career has gone on, and felt my intelligence has grown not only in the “hard” academics but in other areas of my life, such as emotionally, physically, musically, etc. It is exciting to me that there is not a ceiling to my intelligence, that even though I was blessed with a natural ability to excel at school I can still push myself to be even better and even more intelligent and aware.

This is me clinging to my dreams of being a doctor while failing physics freshman year.

Source: cheezburger