Item Begin Narrative EssayBegin Narrative Essay After reading Chapter 5, and watching the videos about ″The Growth Mindset,″ you should begin writing your Narrative essay, due by September 26. The essay will be 2-3 pages, set up MLA style. The below YouTube video will show you how to set up your paper MLA style. https://youtu.be/Ap7Q1t1D_ws Your topic is based on our class discussion and videos about ″The Growth Mindset″ Your specific topic is: Tell me a story about a time when having or not having a growth mindset has affected your life. Conclusion is what you have learned about yourself through this reflection. Remember that a narrative is a story with an overall purpose or point and involves human conflict (internal or external). There will be a rubric and a link next week to submit the essay. Item The Growth MindsetThe Growth Mindset Quotes from Carol S. Dweck, Mindset: The New Psychology Of Success “Effort is what makes you smart or talented” “no matter what your ability is, effort is what ignites that ability and turns it into accomplishment.” “it’s not always the people who start out the smartest who end up the smartest.” “When you learn new things, these tiny connections in the brain actually multiply and get stronger. The more that you challenge your mind to learn, the more your brain cells grow. Then, things that you once found very hard or even impossible—like speaking a foreign language or doing algebra—seem to become easy. The result is a stronger, smarter brain.” “The fixed- and growth-mindset groups started with the same ability, but as time went on the growth-mindset groups clearly outperformed the fixed-mindset ones. And this difference became ever larger the longer the groups worked. Once again, those with the growth mindset profited from their mistakes and feedback far more than the fixed-mindset people.” Failure is an action, not an identity. “Failure can be painful but it doesn’t define you. It’s a problem to be faced, dealt with, and learned from.” “We like to think of our champions and idols as superheroes who were born different from us. We don’t like to think of them as relatively ordinary people who made themselves extraordinary.” “Think about your hero. Do you think of this person as someone with extraordinary abilities who achieved with little effort? Now go find out the truth. Find out the tremendous effort that went into their accomplishment—and admire them more.” “Michael Jordan embraced his failures. In fact, in one of his favorite ads for Nike, he says: ‘I’ve missed more than nine thousand shots. I’ve lost almost three hundred games. Twenty-six times, I’ve been trusted to take the game-winning shot, and missed.’ You can be sure that each time, he went back and practiced the shot a hundred times.” Other relevant quotes: “It’s not that I’m so smart, it’s just that I stay with problems longer.” – Albert Einstein “A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new.” – Albert Einstein
