Growth Mindset: What Fear can teach us

I chose to do my Growth Mindset over the video called "What fear can teach us" by Karen Thompson. This was a very unique video to me because it is all about fear. For myself I don't really feel as though I have that big of fears. You know not the type of fear that will leave me standing stone cold if I image jumping off a cliff or trembling because I saw a snake.

However, in this video she spoken about how all fear can be viewed as stories and how people can think of elaborate fears about almost anything. This is also translated into how we view the fears in our life and really only are worried about the most vivid of fears rather than the fears that are in our life everyday but chose not to worry about. Like instead of thinking about serial killers and whether or not the plane we are boarding is going to crash we should be listening to the slower more sutler fears. For instance, whether or not the food we are cramming in our face is causing a build up in our arteries or one she gave in the video is the gradual change in climate.

So what I learned from this video is not that I don't have fears or that the fears that I have could not come true, but instead of listening to my irrational fear I should be listening to the stories in my head that have meaning and are the truest in my life.

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Video Source: What fear can teach us.

Growth Mindset: Learn More about Mindset

For this week's Growth Mindset challenge I chose to learn more about mindset! In this challage I stumbles upon a Ted talk on youtube video called, "Try something new for 30 days" by Matt Cutts. In this video he started off by staying. "he felt like he was stuck in a rut". The way he figured out to get out of this rut was by starting something new for 30 days. He claims that the idea is really simply you start off by thinking about something you either was to add or subtract from your life, then complete that task in just 30 days. By doing this these challenges the he found that time didn't fly by so fast and that is was much more memorable. On top of all of this after each challenge completed he could feel his confidence going from very little to sky rocketing to were he think he could do anything for 30 days! I think this idea is great and something I would live to try in the next few weeks. I'm not really sure what that would be but I really feel like this would be something I would love to complete.The biggest thing that I learned from Matt in this video is that small changes = sustainable. That some small changes that you make will stick resulting in big results!

Source:"Small Changes Bring Big Results"

Video source:Try something new for 30 days- Matt Cutts

Growth Mindset: Memes

Growth Mindset Memes

 "Connect with others to reduce stress" Web Source

I love this one so much. With my personal experience connection with other people help me so much to reduce my stress level. If I just sit around thinking about what is stressing me out without actually communicating it to other people my stress just gets worse and worse.
Connecting with my friends and family really helps me just forget about my everyday life that is stressing me out. Really like this picture

Growth Mindset

 I have never heard of Carol Dweck before, so this is the first time I have really of heard about Growth mindset before. I think it is pretty interesting to see that we can actually have different spectrum's  that our minds can sit at as far as growth comes or the willingness to grow. I think I pretty much find myself in the fixed spectrum when it comes to school. I agreed with pretty much all of what she said about how a student reacts after they fail a class or when they get a low grade. In other aspects of my life I think I relate more to a growth mindset especially when it comes to sports. I am a retired college football athlete so in this aspect I see myself as someone who was always willing to learn about new ways to become better in that part of my life.

                                              "I do not fear the winds of change" Web Link