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Growth Mindset! This week I read an article about Fixed vs Growth Mindset and found it very interesting  especially the experiment Carol Dweck had carried out.  Which  has  taught  existing  hypotheses  about  why  appearance  is  more  critical  than  praise  in  educating  kids  to  maintain  a  positive  connection  with  accomplishment,  examines  how  these  mindsets  are  born, very early in life that  Dweck  and  her  peers  gave  four year olds an option: to either remake a jigsaw  puzzle  or  attempt  a  tougher  one.  These  young  children  too  conformed  to the  features  of  one  of  the  two. Fixed vs Growth

Growth Mindset! Today I will be discussing the importance of feedback, and Growth Mindset one's attitude towards negative or critical feedback. Whilst also discussing the dangers of positive feedback. As my lecturer says, we have been programmed over the years to be ”punished for mistakes” in school. We have been taught from a very young age to almost not take feedback in a positive light, which I personally believe is ridiculous. I mean how are you meant to grow if you can't make mistakes? How can you keep someone accountable for mistakes he/she has done in the past? Upon reading A fixed mindset could be holding you back — here's how to change it by Anna Kelsey Sugg and Ann Arnold. I found myself agreeing with many things that was written in the article, Anna discusses how overly praising someone can actually make a person ”brittle and fragile” I find this to be very true. As I have encountered many different individuals during my time in school, I found that many people f...