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Growth Mindset

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For this week growth mindset challenge I sat down with a friend of mine and asked them about growth mindset. Now I needed to tell that it was for an assignment in college as they were sceptical about the whole thing and weren't really up to doing it. So to start I asked if they had heard of growth mindset already and if so were they applying it to there daily lives. They responded by saying no, so I explained the concept to them which  didn't help matters as they decided to take the piss out of me so from here on the answers won't be great. We went on to talk about how they apply growth mindset in there lives, so they mentioned playing hurling, as when they first started out they could barley hit the ball along the ground, but as years went on they developed more and more skill in the sport until they ended up where they are today. We both agreed that this was an example of them applying a growth mindset to an aspect of their lives, as when they started off they were no cou...

Growth Mindset

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 Looking at the video "The surprising habit of original thinkers, by Adam Grant I was able to stop viewing my procrastination as a huge massive problem, obviously I controlled it better but more importantly is that I need to start embracing my procrastination so when am looking for inspiration that I maybe able to use it to drum up some creativity. So the video is about a man talking about procrastinators and pre-crastinators and how that if you fall into too much of each category you are less likely to be creative, which makes senses if you think about it as the pre-crastinators rush in to complete a task while the procrastinators leave everything to the last minute, in both cases no fresh ideas get a chance to form. Something that I never thought about was that the man mentions giving three of the same tasks to three different people, one would rush in straight away and try finish it, another would procrastinate for ten minutes. Finally the last one would only procrastinate for ...