Growth Mindset: Just Keep Swimming

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After doing some further research over Growth Mindset, I realized that our favorite blue fish Dory had the right idea. While dory may have suffered from short term memory loss she is a prime example of what having a growth mindset can accomplish.

She preserved when frustrated, she pushed herself when she couldn't remember, she sought help from the people around her, and she always just kept swimming. I  believe that we should all be a little more like Dory. We should always go after our dreams and goals with the idea that we can take on whatever comes our way. 

While Finals week is upon us keep in mind to just keep swimming.

Growth Mindset: Create your own Meme

For this growth mindset challenge I decided to create my own meme that is tailored to my passions. I have a deep seeded love for travel and I believe that my creativity is fueled by my travels. Experiencing culture and diving into to a new place allows for growth. It pushes you to be a better version of yourself and to get out there and learn new things. For that very reason I put the quote "Creativity knows no boundaries," I believe that creativity isn't confined by walls or borders but that it can be found anywhere in the world. Go out and find it.

Week 10: The Will to Explore

(Growth mindset meme sourced from the Growth Mindset Blog)

I believe in my heart of hearts that I was born with the innate will to explore and go. When I came across this Growth Midset meme, I was like "Yes, this is me." I don't think curiosity is something that can be learned or taught, I think it is natural. I believe people are born with curiosity and that is as springboards them into the fields that they are passionate about. 

For me, I'm passionate about traveling the world and people, this curiosity about what the world offers I believe landed me the job I now have working in an International Travel PR firm in New York City. 

The things that we are passionate about will push us forward. Be curious about something, whether that be far off places, people, computers, or history. It can be anything. It is better to be curious and say yes to exploring that field in depth than to do nothing at all.

Week 8: Growth Mindset

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After looking back and reflection on the growth mindset challenges that I have completed I realized (and already knew) that my biggest challenge deals with time.

I feel as if there are not enough hours in the day to get done what I need to. I looked at this chart and recognized a few things about myself and the way that I grow.

I noticed right off the bat that I do the minimum in the things I'm not passionate about and in the things that I passionate about I push myself to go as far as I can. I research and spend time on the things that captivate my heart. I find the motivation inside myself to do the things that I know I want to do. It’s not like pulling teeth, it comes naturally. That’s why in life I desire to pursue a career that I’m passionate about. If it’s void of creativity then it’s not for me.

I think with this class I want to be a perfectionist in my story writing, I want it to be good and I mull over sentences for a long period of time in hopes of making it the best I can be. However, I think short-term in that sense and haven’t completed as many stories as I should because I take too long on one post.

In life and even in this class I see myself comparing myself to others. As a woman in college, how can you not? I find myself critiquing the way I look, the clothes I wear, the stories I’m writing, and the job I’m pursuing. I firmly believe that we are our own worst critics. I am harder on myself than I should be, which is a blessing and a curse.

I enjoy that this class is not only acting as an outlet for creative writing but it pushes me to critically think and grow as a person.

Growth Mindset

(Image sourced from Robert Cullen's Tweet posted earlier this morning)

Before this assignment I had never heard of Carol Dweck and this idea of growth mindset. However, after watching the two videos I realized that growth mindset is not a new concept in society, the term has just never been coined before.


I think humans innately know that we need to challenge ourselves in our relationships, in our workplaces, and especially in our comfort zones, it’s just a matter of actually doing it. I think Carol Dweck is onto the idea that Growth Mindset and challenging out minds needs to be enforced in schools otherwise we won’t do it. Most people need that extra push in order to do so.


My favorite this Professor Dweck said in her ted talk was “Praise the Process, not the end result.” As a creative person, this is something that I have come to know and live by. One of my favorite things to do is write and I know that in my writing there is a process that takes place. In my writing classes I’ve come to know and love the process it takes to create a blog. However, this does not translate well when I focus on courses that involves numbers.


When it comes to math or business related courses I get trapped in the mindset of now. I don’t appreciate the difficult process it takes to find the end result of an equation because I have trained my brain that I am not a math person, thus making me a failure at all math related things. This goes directly against the Growth mindset that Professor Dweck is so passionate about.


I believe growth mindset is something that I would be more interested in getting to know and understand, as it is applicable to everyday life. This semester I already feel like I am growing my brain just by figuring out the groove of each of my classes. I have a multitude of online classes, I’m skyping with professors who teach out of New York, and I’m getting used to the different online platforms that my professors are choosing to use.


Growth mindset is key in our learning abilities. I think that everyone deserves to know that they have value and worth even when things don’t go as planned. There is joy to be found in the journeys and the process it takes to get to an end result. Whether that end result be a math problem, a creative writing piece, or just to a turning point in ones life.