Growth Mindset: How to Build a Team

Build a Tower, Build a Team- Tom Wujec

Growth Mindset: Multiple Intelligences

I love learning about the different theories on how people grow their capabilities and trying to understand how this could help me with my own study habits or how this could help me retain various things I learn at work more effectively. Although I think everyone has unique strengths, no one is absolutely one type of learner or absolutely intelligent in only one way. Rather it is a mix of these different ways of learning and utilizing this knowledge that creates a person's unique abilities. I also believe that it is critically important to continue improving your way of learning and utilizing what you learned in a way that forces you to confront the areas you are weak in. By growing in all ways, you can prepare yourself to overcome challenging classes with professors that have different teaching styles than what you are accustomed to or taking on tasks at work that force you to utilize skills you would not otherwise utilize.

Howard Gardner's Multiple Intelligences Infrographic by Mark Bennett (Web Source)

Growth Mindset: The Spellbinding Art of Human Anatomy

The Spellbinding Art of Human Anatomy- Vanessa Ruiz

Growth Mindset: Bound for Success or Doomed to Fail

How we're priming some kids for college- and others for prison (Alice Goffman)

I found this Ted Talk very interesting because it really illuminates some of the unsung struggles of growing up as a minority in an underprivileged community. I think it can be easy to lose sight of the way these problems are created when we look at only the outcomes and ignore the causes that begin so much earlier than we often realize. 

Growth Mindset: 8 Secrets of Success

Here's one of the Ted Talks I listened to this week. It's really short and if you need just a little extra boost for the day, this is exactly the video for you.

8 Secrets of Success- Richard St. John

Growth Mindset: Jugaad

Jugaad- "Frugal Innovation"

Creative problem-solving in the face of extreme limits by Navi Radjou

Growth Mindset: Try Something New for 30 Days

Try Something New for 30 Days 

One of the Ted Talks I listened to this week:

"Try Something New for 30 Days" 

-Matt Cutts

Growth Mindset: Grit

I have been listening to one TED talk each morning on my way to work or school this week and I have really enjoyed all of them. However, this morning I found this particular talk where the speaker mentioned Carol Dweck to be both interesting and inspiring.

Grit: The power of passion and perseverance

Week 8 Growth Mindset

Now that I have completed all of my prerequisites for medical school, this year is about taking all the classes that just didn't quite fit into my schedule before. So, I am completing my honors requirements, working on a Spanish minor, taking neurobiology courses, and taking humanities courses that help me learn more about cultures that I am interested in and/or grow my writing skills. All of these things are very important to me and I see them as a way to continue pursuing my goal of lifelong learning, but it also forces me to grow in other ways. I am accustomed to balancing a heavy work and school load, but my classes are usually 4 or 5 hour classes, as opposed to 3 hour classes. My classes this semester are all 3 hour classes, making this a much different course load than my standard schedule. I think that in striving to take on new challenges, I sometimes take on more than I should. 

Growth Mindset meme (Web Source)

Growth Mindset: Diving Headfirst

I saved this meme because it is exactly what I feel like I have to do every time that I start a new week. Keeping up a delicate balancing act is hard, but as long as I can continue to stay motivated and dive into each week like the growth mindset cat, I can keep achieving my goals.

Growth Mindset Cat Dives Headfirst (Web Source)

Growth Mindset: So You Had a Bad Day (week)

So, my past few weeks have been particularly rough, trying to juggle work, school, secondary applications, and financial aid issues. AND to make matters worse, I am now sick. But, there is hope! I have been slowly but surely making progress towards getting everything accomplished and when I was looking through our class announcements this morning, I couldn't help but feel a little better as I came across this Growth Mindset Meme:

Growth Mindset Meme by Paula Nimigean (Web Source)

Growth Mindset: Throwback to Finals Week of Spring 2016

After completing the Feedback Focus assignment this week, I was reminded of a time last semester that I felt completely overwhelmed by everything I had on my plate. It was the weekend before finals and two weeks before I took the MCAT. I felt like I needed to study literally everything for every single remaining second until I had completed everything in front of me. And then, I decided to do something crazy....

Meme I created to remind myself I could do it (Christen O'Neal)

...I took a break. I made this meme and I felt like it was really applicable to anyone who ever feels like everything is just way to big for them to accomplish. Because, even though the stack of papers may be larger than the stapler, the stapler still conquers the papers by organizing them into that stack. By recognizing that I needed a system, I felt less overwhelmed and got back on track with studying for finals and continued my relentless MCAT studying.

Bibliograph:
Growth Mindset: A Powerful Way to Learn by Laura Gibbs (Web Source)

Reflection on the Growth Mindset

I have heard about the Growth Mindset before this, when I was taking biochemistry with Dr. Sims last semester. He strongly believed it was the key to tackling any difficult class and really expanding one's knowledge. I agree with this belief and hope to be able to use this frame of mind in my Spanish class. I am taking conversational Spanish this semester in hopes of being able to boost my confidence when speaking in Spanish, but I know I will really have to adopt this mindset to achieve this goal. I am taking a very full course load this semester, so I thought that the following picture was a funny reminder that although, as students, we may have a lot of pressure to perform constantly, it is important to take breaks as well.

Growth Mindset Meme by Islam Abudaoud; Source: Growth Mindset Memes Blog