Mindset And Grit In Shakespeare's Othello

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Mindset/Grit & Othello MidTerm

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Understand the book through to Mindset and Grit

Throughout Shakespeare's Othello, he tells a story of a prince living in Venice who is

secretly in love and also engaged with a woman named Desdemona who is in fact the daughter

of the Brabantio (the Senator). It was an intriguing tale about the different aspects and conflicts

involving Shakespeare's mindset and grit for all of his characters. In our CUNY English class, we

read multiple articles and passages from different publishers and psychologists about how grit

and mindset can be interpreted and used to understand what a person can do and how they would

do it. The way I would interpret grit is through an acronym. G stands for Give it your absolute

best. Knowing that you …show more content…

R stands for Restart when you feel inevitable. It's okay to have mistakes,

it's about evaluating your mistakes and understand what you did wrong. Once you've figured out

how to correct your mistakes, pick yourself up and redo it over with a better frame of mind. I

stand for Ignore Failure. If your first mindset is knowing that you're going to fail, most likely

you are. You always showed to have a mindset, not about winning but getting to the finish line.

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And last but not least, T stands for Take your time to do it right. If you have time, use it all. You

do not have to rush if you time. Your time is very valuable and managing it well will eventually

get everything you need done. Grit has been shown (and also not shown) in Shakespeare's

Othello with the main characters when pointing their conflicts with marriage, greed, betrayal,

and being pragmatic. Shakespeare's Othello can be compared to those of the publishers theories

and thoughts on mindset and grit.

Starting with Othello, Othello throughout the Othello presents a growing mindset toward

himself and toward other important characters such as Desdemona and Iago. Othello in

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