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Michael journa said I’ve missed more
than 9000 shots lost almost 300 games
and 26 times I’ve been trusted to make
the game-winning shot and missed I fail
over and over and over again and dad’s
why succeed Michael Jordan is one of
most famous basketball players in the
world though he was not only as a star
he didn’t make his high school
basketball team because he was too short
I wasn’t good enough he could have quit
bun said he had the mindset to continue
and get better he was a practicing each
day before most people were even out of
bed and because of this he not only made
the team the following year but he went
on to become the greatest player of all
time and a true champion the question
that comes to our mind is can we all
learn to have a mindset champion a
mindset is a word describing how we
think there are two types of mindsets
one a 12 mindset and two a fixed mindset
a growth mindset is when somebody
believes they can learn to be good and
they can learn to get better they are
not afraid of challenges they continue
when things get hard they know that they
have put effort and to learn and they
learned from criticism they are also
inspired by people who do well Michael
Jordan has this trait though another
person with a growth mindset is the rock
Dwayne Johnson he was cut from the
Canadian Football League early on in his
career he could have quit bunts said he
worked very hard faced many challenges
and is now a super super famous movie
star one of my favorite did you know
that coaches and professional Scouts
look for athletes who don’t just have
skill they want someone who wants to
learn who is coachable and will give a
hundred percent effort and in practices
they want someone with a growth mindset
what they don’t want is somebody who
thinks they are already good enough they
don’t need to learn and are not
coachable the
people have a fixed mindset a fixed
mindset is the opposite opposite of a
growth these people I don’t think
they’re born good or born not-so-good
they cannot learn they are afraid of
challenges they give up and get
defensive easily they feel criticized
when given feedback and are threatened
by people who do well which mindset do
you think I have well let me tell you
story reading has always been hard for
me and even now I still find a challenge
in from kindergarten to fourth grade I
was always a bit below grade level in
meaning so each night I read aloud to my
parents they try to get better this was
always the worst part of my day
whenever I zareen I would of course make
mistakes
miss read words say words that weren’t
there miss words that were there and
miss punctuation normal but one of my
mom or dad tried to correct me I get
upset I told them that they were wrong
and sometimes even have a meltdown this
happened from my friends and teachers
and with other subjects and activities
too I thought that I should know how to
do everything already and if I didn’t I
would get upset I thought that what my
teachers were teaching should come to me
easy well guess what some of the things
I was learning or reading or not easy I
would get upset negative thoughts came
into my mind
you suck you can’t do anything this
should be so easy suddenly I felt tears
coming down my face in front of our
friends and teachers too
in my hand saying no no no no no no
please no I could no longer control my
emotions this is where the real problem
begins
you see I lose control of my emotions I
stop listening and I stop thinking I
become difficult to those around me and
when I finally get through it I am very
tired
this is not healthy and it’s not the
person I want to be I want to know why
is he on this way and why my emotions
were so strong well this year in fifth
grade was the first year I able to
answer these questions I learned what a
growth and fixed mindset er
learning how to change my fixed mindset
into a growth mindset and have a mindset
of a champion I believe we can have both
of these mindsets a growth mindset and a
fixed mindset I believe this because
I’ve both I’ve a growth mindset with
things like soccer basketball change and
learning your languages I also believe
we can change our fixed mindset into
growth mindset and have a mindset of a
champion well maybe not a champion like
Michael Jordan but champion in our own
way we may just need a little help to do
this
my dad and I read this book called
mindsets written by Carol Dweck Carol
Dweck is a professor and professional
psychologist who researched and came up
with the idea of a growth and fixed
mindset her book told me that I was not
the only one as a fixed mindset from
time to time however the best advice I
ever got was from my teacher and school
counselor their advice was a one little
three-letter word this word was yet they
told me always put the word yet at the
end of my sentence I can’t do it I can’t
do it yet I don’t understand I don’t
understand yet the word yet makes me
feel I just need to put a little more
effort in before I understand it I still
still go with a fixed mindset from time
to time however I now know I get
frustrated and upset for any of you out
there who may have a fixed mindset from
time to time please know that I’m proof
that you can beat it right in this talk
I struggle the whole time though every
day I’ve gotten a little better than the
day before this is why I can say I’m
winning because I’m here in front of you
now today thank you
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