Fixed Mindset Analysis

By saying “I can’t” that automatically makes me a fixed mindset. Most people don’t realize they have a fixed or growth mindset. That’ll be some of what I’ll be talking about in my essay along with some personal educational experiences.

My weaknesses from my educational experience would be a couple things. To start off it would be from middle school in my English class because I’ve always hated English. So I had more of a fixed mindset I always thought that it was too hard for me to do essays like I wasn’t capable of doing them. I would start them but I never finish them. One of my goals back then was to get better at essays which is still one of my goals today. And then eventually writing essays wasn’t my weakness because I knew that I can do them. It wasn’t till another English teacher later in high school that helped me out a lot and made me like English a little more than I did back in middle school. She would push me to do everything I would say I can’t do up until I got out of the fixed mindset. Another one of my

I had to get motivated to get to the growth mindset that I’m at right now. Another reason why I connected with it was because I never wanted a challenging task. When I was told about challenging tasks I would work my way around it and find the simplest way to get it done so I won’t struggle with any of it. Now I would say that I like having a challenging task because I’ll feel like the easy way is nothing to me and I won’t try to do what I would do in the past which was basically avoiding it completely and doing something easier. It wasn’t till high school that my English teacher pushed me to do the challenging task and not go around it she wouldn’t grade it if it seemed like I didn’t try she would keep making me do it over until it met the more challenging requirement. That helped me a lot too more than I thought it