W03 Application Activity: Mindset

Name: Angie Carolina Garzón Quiñones

Overview
This week, a large part of your Life Skill Lesson focused on how you can become a more capable
learner. You learned that one of the main ways you can do this is by adopting a growth
mindset. For this week’s Application Activity, you will explore the differences between a fixed
and growth mindset and then evaluate them within the context of your own life experience.

Instructions
To complete this activity, please answer the following questions:

Part 1: Definitions and Outcomes

Imagine that you have a friend or family member that has never heard of a growth or fixed
mindset before and would like to know more.

1. In 3 to 4 sentences, describe the differences between a growth and fixed mindset.

Include in your answer what makes them different and what the usual outcome of each
mindset is.

The different between fixed mindset and growth mindset is that people with fixed
mindset tend to view failure and success as evidence of their intelligence and people
with a growth mindset are likely to see failure as an opportunity to learn and grow. It is
important to say that the usual outcome of fixed mindset is people with frustration
feelings because can’t achieve the goals and the outcome of growth mindset is people
with the knowledge that can achieve all things with hard work.

Part 2: Describe A Failure

Think back on your own life and challenges and pick one instance where you failed at
something. Next, answer each of the following questions.

2. What were you trying to accomplish?

I was trying to accomplish learn English.

3. How did you feel when you failed?

I felt that I need to improve my plan to achieve it.

4. How did you respond to those feelings?

 I improved my plan and I understood that is so important the failure if we embrace it,
the way that I use to improve my plan is pathway connect.

Part 3: Reflect on the Failure

5. Drawing on what you know about growth and fixed mindsets, would you say that your
response was more of a fixed mindset or a growth mindset? Why or why not?

I think that I response to growth mindset because when I failure in something I search
the way to achieve the goal that I have.

6. If you feel you responded with a growth mindset, what strategies did you apply to avoid
having a fixed mindset? If you feel you responded with a fixed mindset, what strategies
do you feel you could have applied (and could apply to future situations) to have a
growth mindset about failure instead?

The strategy that is more important for me is to do plans, if I failure I come back to my
original plan and I think what is the reason to the failure and I search the way to
improve to achieve my goal.

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