College Adventures

I read Be a Mirror as my first article "When students develop a growth mindset about their reading ability, they believe that their hard work, struggle, and opportunities for problem solving are all important and valuable parts of the learning process. When students develop a fixed mindset about their ability, they believe their reading level, skill level, and proficiency are static and not much can be done to change them. With a fixed mindset comes resistance to working hard and putting extra effort in because there is really no point."   I feel like this is a problem that everybody goes through and that you get to a point where you feel like you can not improve anymore and that you begin to stagnate that will also become very frustrating for yourself as you are used to improvement and this can cause frustration and lack of belief in ones skills or ability's. Feedback can help with this as it can help be that push in the right direction if the feedback is given correctly...

How to Get Past Negativity Bias in Order to Hardwire Positive Experiences  this is the first article I chose to read. This talks about how we are very negatively evolved with our brains taking in more of the negative stuff around us rather than the positive. Which I think is really accurate as many people put themselves down for the work and have a constant feeling of it not being good enough or not having confidence in yourself. As I know I really do struggle with those things. This post teaches you how to re-hard wire your brain to take in more of the positive mindset. I found that some of them were very useful and interesting ways of  trying to change your mindset Why rejection hurts so much — and what to do about it  this is the second article I chose to read. I found this quote really interesting "The greatest damage rejection causes is usually self-inflicted. Just when our self-esteem is hurting most, we go and damage it even further." As I said in the first para...