4.4 Mindset: Project by Luxi

Summarize each of the four characteristics of grit in your own words. 3-5 sentences.

bpiepenbrink — 2024-02-29 16:00:50 UTC

Describe the difference between a growth mindset and a fixed mindset. 3-5 sentences.

bpiepenbrink — 2024-02-29 16:02:20 UTC

Find an example in the form of an article, video, or interview of a successful professional discussing a time when they faced a challenge. Provide a link to the example.

bpiepenbrink — 2024-02-29 16:02:58 UTC

Did the professional display grit in their reaction to the challenge? Use at least 2 characteristics of gritty people discussed in the week 4 textbook to support your answer. 3-5 sentences.

bpiepenbrink — 2024-02-29 16:04:01 UTC

Did the professional practice a growth mindset in their reaction to the challenge? Use at least 2 growth mindset strategies discussed in the week 4 textbook to support your answer. 3-5 sentences.

bpiepenbrink — 2024-02-29 16:08:50 UTC

How can grit and the growth mindset help you as a student? 3-5 sentences.

bpiepenbrink — 2024-02-29 16:09:12 UTC

Interest

bpiepenbrink — 2024-03-03 20:33:48 UTC

This characteristic deals with what you're passionate about. Having passion for something gives you the ability to focus more fully on it. That focus can lead to a deeper drive to learn and grow in that subject or task.

Practice

bpiepenbrink — 2024-03-03 20:34:00 UTC

Through practice, and more importantly deliberate practice, you can grow and develop the things you are passionate about. Practice in relation to grit requires a focus on the things you need to improve on rather than the things you're already good at. By focusing on those areas, your grit will drive you even further in completing your goals.

Purpose

bpiepenbrink — 2024-03-03 20:34:18 UTC

Identifying your purpose for pursing a certain passion will help you find the strength, or resilience, to continue working on it. This area of grit is important because it can boost up the other important characteristic areas of grit. When you know why you're doing something, it makes it much easier to keep moving forward even when mistakes are made.

Hope

bpiepenbrink — 2024-03-03 20:34:31 UTC

Through any journey to grow and thrive, you have to maintain hope for the future outcome. Taking setbacks as learning moments rather than impassable obstacles builds up your confidence and willingness to keep going. Your hope is the ribbon that holds together the other components of grit, making sure it all sticks together to drive you forward.

Growth Mindset

bpiepenbrink — 2024-03-03 20:34:46 UTC

A growth mindset allows you to work on yourself in positive ways. It shows you that regardless of setbacks or mistakes, you can put in enough effort and work to change things and grow as a person. You will push yourself further and stay on course for longer with a growth mindset because you believe that one day, you will succeed and all the work will be worth it.

Fixed Mindset

bpiepenbrink — 2024-03-03 20:34:58 UTC

The fixed mindset impedes growth because you believe nothing will change your current skill level or intelligence. You don't see future change or growth and refuse to push yourself harder or further. You want to prove yourself to others but your anxiety holds you back from getting better.

Example Interview

bpiepenbrink — 2024-03-03 20:35:25 UTC

bpiepenbrink — 2024-03-03 20:35:45 UTC

I think the director showed all the characteristics of grit, but the two biggest would be purpose and hope. He knew his purpose early on and continued to move forward despite the challenges and dangers that purpose presented. His hope pushed him forward, even when he was worried his life was in danger. He didn't give up when he was met with obstacles and pushed through when it seemed bleak.

bpiepenbrink — 2024-03-03 20:35:57 UTC

I think he did. Through all of the potential setbacks he found himself experiencing, he never gave up. He always pushed forward, even when it was his literal life on the line. He sought out a massive challenge in this documentary and struggled financially as well as receiving threats to his life. However, he persevered and created a documentary that would be critically acclaimed.

bpiepenbrink — 2024-03-03 20:36:10 UTC

Maintaining a growth mindset and utilizing grit will help me grow and thrive as a student because when used hand-in-hand, they will help me continue to push myself. Using the four characteristics of grit and remembering that my mistakes and setbacks don't define me are massive motivators to keep going. I have been guilty of having a fixed mindset in the past, but moving forward will only happen if I work to change that and myself to succeed where I want to succeed.