- We read Bain’s chapter “Learning how to embrace failure.” Let’s begin by emphasizing the learning part: as you look back over the past 8 weeks, what would you say you’ve been learning about yourself? Make a connection from Bain to yourself (text-self) or to your Project 1 Goals (text-text) or to your work on Project 2, or even to your work in other classes.
Something that I have been learning about myself is that I rely on routine, but not too strictly, it could be described as messily organized. I say messily organized because I do my best to stay on top of things but sometimes I don’t get this homework in on time or I won’t go to the gym even though I said I would. In past times I would do something like that and just not come back from it, for example not going to the gym that one day and then not going again for another two months. But with coming to college and being able to hand shape my life a little more I now put the time back in to make up for the missed work or I choose to go to the gym a different day, instead of just throwing it all away. I connect this mindset/thought about myself to the passage in the reading called changing a mindset because I think this shows how my mindset has changed from high school to now.
- Review your early posts on Carol Dweck’s “growth mindset.” How might you connect Dweck’s description of growth mindset to Bain’s emphasis on the value of failure?
I feel like these 2 concepts kind of go hand in hand, learning how to embrace your own failures and see what you did wrong can help you get that growth mindset to keep going. If you see what you did wrong and continue to pursue a different approach that will be more beneficial than staying in the fixed mindset of being like oh I couldn’t do it the first time so I can’t do it all.
