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[Laughter]
you
you
[Applause]
some people might never figure out what
their purpose in life is and have spent
all of their time trying to which
probably sucks but I wouldn’t know
see I had it all figured out in
elementary school my purpose for being
alive my ultimate goal my destiny the
smartest most perfect kid ever now I
know it doesn’t seem like the worst
thing in the world but this label
followed me throughout elementary middle
and now high school along with the
expectation that I will always go above
and beyond and maybe it’s just me but
there’s something about having everyone
around you tell you to be perfect that
makes you want to be perfect
it sets up failure to seem like the
worst possible option and sometimes in
order to not fail you don’t try in a
global epidemic that sweeps everyone
from children to adults a fixed mindset
prevents us from taking the final step
towards success we’ve all felt this
pressure of achieving perfection a
constant desire to reach the 100% the
gold star the above-average mark where
does this need for excellence come from
and why is it so hard for us to face
failure so let’s talk about the mindsets
were put into and brought up to believe
we’re a fixed point of view steps from
and how we can grow past our failures
one step at a time our judgments of
ourselves and our abilities reflect the
mindsets we’ve developed throughout our
lives these mindsets are the beliefs and
perceptions towards the extent of what
we’re capable of our intelligence and
personality
heavily assessed by these judgments I
have seen as static unchanging
characteristics or traits that can be
changed and improved over time growing
up I was always told that I was at the
top of the class and praised for going
above and beyond what was expected as a
result I was placed into my school’s
gifted and talented program GT was
intended to weed out the more advanced
students presumably so that they would
be in an environment where they could
reach their full potential
instead gifted and talented was more of
a safety net if we ever made a mistake
we could fall back on the reassurance
that we were smart
unfortunately outside of elementary
school this philosophy doesn’t hold up
in the article mindsets and student
agency at right arsenio writes studies
show that when we praise kids for being
smart when they perform well we
inadvertently put them in a fixed
mindset they start focusing on trying to
look smart
avoid challenge the effort as a sign of
weakness and fall apart when things get
hard the development of a fixed mindset
is usually completely unintentional we
try to motivate and encourage the people
around us it always realize whether
we’re praising their effort or their
success saying things like you learn
that so quickly or that so easy for you
son AHS ative messages in the moment but
evolved in a harsher self judgments
later on being commended on learning
something quickly makes us think that
taking longer to learn something in the
future means that we aren’t smart
praised for not happy to try as hard at
one thing or how did something come more
easily to us than someone
leads to the idea that effort equals a
lack of intelligence Carol Dweck one of
the world’s leading researchers in the
psychology of mindsets determines
through many studies ranging from
elementary to middle school students but
your mindset predicts your achievements
in Dweck’s book mindset the new
psychology of success she writes
believing that your qualities are carved
in stone the fixed mindset creates an
urgency to prove yourself over and over
this is a destructive viewpoint because
it leads someone to think that the
opposite of success is failure in
reality failure is part of the process
leading up to success learning what does
and doesn’t work and pushing forward to
an ultimate goal people with a growth
mindset realize this and can determine
how to improve their work rather than
giving up the mindsets we put ourselves
into don’t only influence who we are on
a daily basis but who will become in the
long-term and ultimately we’re the only
ones that can decide if it’s going to be
a positive or a negative impact one of
my biggest obstacles in life then
something that haunts me to this day
is dancing and I think it really started
in fifth grade when my school host did a
ballroom dancing competition and I
wasn’t worthy of even in the waltz in
seventh and eighth grade I auditioned
for the school musicals
both times I ended up with very minor
roles which was probably for the best
seeing as I dropped out of each one but
it wasn’t laziness or a scheduling
conflict that held me back my fear of
dancing or more so my fear of messing up
prevented me from following through it
wasn’t until this year that I gained
enough confidence to try auditioning
again forcing myself to push through the
immense things they had anxiety I felt
at the time I survived happy to start
over my audition song spitting a
mouthful of water on the stage manager
and wrapping it up by hitting all the
wrong notes even just a year ago my
overwhelming fear of embarrassing myself
would have made it impossible for me to
take chances like this it took a long
time for me to realize that progress
only comes from trial and error and the
power to push push through but growth
mindsets aren’t only about leaving your
comfort zone so much as creating a new
one merriam-webster defines comfort zone
as the level at which one can function
with ease and familiarity while
discomfort is defined as mental or
physical uneasiness so how do we find a
balance between the two surprisingly the
separation between comfort and challenge
isn’t as big as you might think
daily activities continually shift our
comfort zones as we’re thrown into new
situations and experiences so it seems
easy and it is but where do we start on
our path towards progress in 25 ways to
develop a growth mindset saga Briggs
explains the best ways to establish
attitudes based around improvement and
personal growth but of these 25 what can
we do right now first cultivate a sense
of purpose in order for us to work hard
we have to work towards something by
understanding the purpose behind what
the motivation to succeed increases with
our effort second-place effort before
talent in Carol Dweck’s even geniuses
work hard she describes the processes
teachers can go through in order to
create a sense of improvement in their
students she does this by explaining
meaningful learning tasks gives students
a clear sense of progress leading to
mastery that is teachers can point out
that the students efforts we’re what led
to the progress and improvement over
time in order for us to place effort
before speed or Talent we have to
understand and accept that learning
styles of the people around us by doing
this praising the process leading up to
success becomes communicable and
understandable and third use the word
yet instead of saying I can’t say I
can’t yet
to open up these possibilities for
progress and improvement it really is
that easy three simple attitude changes
in your everyday life are enough to move
on from believing that your abilities
are permanent and to begin the
cultivation of a growth mindset I still
don’t know very much about dancing and
it’s definitely something that I
struggle with learning luckily I’ve
realized that most of the time
struggling is necessary to get better
and what you’re doing I’m trying to not
hold myself back and to understand that
in order for me to progress I have to
start somewhere first
we all know our limits but we also know
exactly how we can push past them how we
can continue to improve no matter what
happens there’s always going to be times
where we’re discouraged
and feel like our efforts are taking us
nowhere but by understanding that these
challenges are what lead up to our
ultimate goal we can develop our own
mindset we just have to start
[Applause]
you
[Laughter]
you
you
[Applause]
some people might never figure out what
their purpose in life is and have spent
all of their time trying to which
probably sucks but I wouldn’t know
see I had it all figured out in
elementary school my purpose for being
alive my ultimate goal my destiny the
smartest most perfect kid ever now I
know it doesn’t seem like the worst
thing in the world but this label
followed me throughout elementary middle
and now high school along with the
expectation that I will always go above
and beyond and maybe it’s just me but
there’s something about having everyone
around you tell you to be perfect that
makes you want to be perfect
it sets up failure to seem like the
worst possible option and sometimes in
order to not fail you don’t try in a
global epidemic that sweeps everyone
from children to adults a fixed mindset
prevents us from taking the final step
towards success we’ve all felt this
pressure of achieving perfection a
constant desire to reach the 100% the
gold star the above-average mark where
does this need for excellence come from
and why is it so hard for us to face
failure so let’s talk about the mindsets
were put into and brought up to believe
we’re a fixed point of view steps from
and how we can grow past our failures
one step at a time our judgments of
ourselves and our abilities reflect the
mindsets we’ve developed throughout our
lives these mindsets are the beliefs and
perceptions towards the extent of what
we’re capable of our intelligence and
personality
heavily assessed by these judgments I
have seen as static unchanging
characteristics or traits that can be
changed and improved over time growing
up I was always told that I was at the
top of the class and praised for going
above and beyond what was expected as a
result I was placed into my school’s
gifted and talented program GT was
intended to weed out the more advanced
students presumably so that they would
be in an environment where they could
reach their full potential
instead gifted and talented was more of
a safety net if we ever made a mistake
we could fall back on the reassurance
that we were smart
unfortunately outside of elementary
school this philosophy doesn’t hold up
in the article mindsets and student
agency at right arsenio writes studies
show that when we praise kids for being
smart when they perform well we
inadvertently put them in a fixed
mindset they start focusing on trying to
look smart
avoid challenge the effort as a sign of
weakness and fall apart when things get
hard the development of a fixed mindset
is usually completely unintentional we
try to motivate and encourage the people
around us it always realize whether
we’re praising their effort or their
success saying things like you learn
that so quickly or that so easy for you
son AHS ative messages in the moment but
evolved in a harsher self judgments
later on being commended on learning
something quickly makes us think that
taking longer to learn something in the
future means that we aren’t smart
praised for not happy to try as hard at
one thing or how did something come more
easily to us than someone
leads to the idea that effort equals a
lack of intelligence Carol Dweck one of
the world’s leading researchers in the
psychology of mindsets determines
through many studies ranging from
elementary to middle school students but
your mindset predicts your achievements
in Dweck’s book mindset the new
psychology of success she writes
believing that your qualities are carved
in stone the fixed mindset creates an
urgency to prove yourself over and over
this is a destructive viewpoint because
it leads someone to think that the
opposite of success is failure in
reality failure is part of the process
leading up to success learning what does
and doesn’t work and pushing forward to
an ultimate goal people with a growth
mindset realize this and can determine
how to improve their work rather than
giving up the mindsets we put ourselves
into don’t only influence who we are on
a daily basis but who will become in the
long-term and ultimately we’re the only
ones that can decide if it’s going to be
a positive or a negative impact one of
my biggest obstacles in life then
something that haunts me to this day
is dancing and I think it really started
in fifth grade when my school host did a
ballroom dancing competition and I
wasn’t worthy of even in the waltz in
seventh and eighth grade I auditioned
for the school musicals
both times I ended up with very minor
roles which was probably for the best
seeing as I dropped out of each one but
it wasn’t laziness or a scheduling
conflict that held me back my fear of
dancing or more so my fear of messing up
prevented me from following through it
wasn’t until this year that I gained
enough confidence to try auditioning
again forcing myself to push through the
immense things they had anxiety I felt
at the time I survived happy to start
over my audition song spitting a
mouthful of water on the stage manager
and wrapping it up by hitting all the
wrong notes even just a year ago my
overwhelming fear of embarrassing myself
would have made it impossible for me to
take chances like this it took a long
time for me to realize that progress
only comes from trial and error and the
power to push push through but growth
mindsets aren’t only about leaving your
comfort zone so much as creating a new
one merriam-webster defines comfort zone
as the level at which one can function
with ease and familiarity while
discomfort is defined as mental or
physical uneasiness so how do we find a
balance between the two surprisingly the
separation between comfort and challenge
isn’t as big as you might think
daily activities continually shift our
comfort zones as we’re thrown into new
situations and experiences so it seems
easy and it is but where do we start on
our path towards progress in 25 ways to
develop a growth mindset saga Briggs
explains the best ways to establish
attitudes based around improvement and
personal growth but of these 25 what can
we do right now first cultivate a sense
of purpose in order for us to work hard
we have to work towards something by
understanding the purpose behind what
the motivation to succeed increases with
our effort second-place effort before
talent in Carol Dweck’s even geniuses
work hard she describes the processes
teachers can go through in order to
create a sense of improvement in their
students she does this by explaining
meaningful learning tasks gives students
a clear sense of progress leading to
mastery that is teachers can point out
that the students efforts we’re what led
to the progress and improvement over
time in order for us to place effort
before speed or Talent we have to
understand and accept that learning
styles of the people around us by doing
this praising the process leading up to
success becomes communicable and
understandable and third use the word
yet instead of saying I can’t say I
can’t yet
to open up these possibilities for
progress and improvement it really is
that easy three simple attitude changes
in your everyday life are enough to move
on from believing that your abilities
are permanent and to begin the
cultivation of a growth mindset I still
don’t know very much about dancing and
it’s definitely something that I
struggle with learning luckily I’ve
realized that most of the time
struggling is necessary to get better
and what you’re doing I’m trying to not
hold myself back and to understand that
in order for me to progress I have to
start somewhere first
we all know our limits but we also know
exactly how we can push past them how we
can continue to improve no matter what
happens there’s always going to be times
where we’re discouraged
and feel like our efforts are taking us
nowhere but by understanding that these
challenges are what lead up to our
ultimate goal we can develop our own
mindset we just have to start
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you
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