"Fixed-mindset individuals dread failure" After finishing the book Mindset by Carol Dweck, this line couldn't leave my mind. In the book Dr. Dweck talks about how people with the fixed mindset are held back from their full potential because they fear failing; she says that people with the fixed mindset feel threatened by failure, and therefor they try to avoid challenges. But it wasn't until the end of the book that I was finally able to see and accept that I fear failure. Since I was a little girl, I have always been extremely competitive, I like to be right in everything I say, and to me loosing against someone else is the worst kind of humiliation. I believed that this was just a part of my personality, but it had never occurred to me that maybe it wasn't that I liked to be right, but that I was afraid of being wrong, afraid of failing. My fear towards failing was the answear to a lot of actions with unknown reasoning behind. Looking back into my past I can clearly recognize how much has my fear of failure held me back to expressing my full potential and taking chances.
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Moments before boarding the plane to start a three-week journey through Europe, I spoke to my father. I was a bit concerned with this trip and wasn't sure if it was the best idea. I told him that maybe this trip was too long, and that I had a lot of things to catch up with during the break."Experience is the best way to learn" he replied, "Europe is home for some of the greatest moments in history. You will be able to visit all the places you learned about in school." I didn't quite understand what he meant with this, but I also didn't know what awaited me at the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.
After a few days in the old continent, I couldn't agree more with what my father had told me, in fact, I thought it was much more than that, this trip served as motivation to me. Weather it was Gaudi's monuments in Barcelona, or Michelangelo's statue of David in Florence, I was beginning to get history like I never had, I felt like finally all the pieces began to fit together. It's an amazing feeling when you learn not because you want to pass the test, but because you are motivated and interested. Motivation really makes the difference in how you learn, for me its really hard to be motivated in class, specially subjects like history where there is a lot of information, but like my father predicted, experiencing all of this kept me motivated which helped me learn better. It was as if this trip switched me on. |
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June 2015
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