growth mindset: 6 bad mental habits

6 bad mental habits that sabotage your success

I chose this article as I love easy and straight to the point 'tips' on how to benefit your mental health.

From reading this I have realised that your thoughts not only affect your emotional stage but also your behaviour. I will bullet point each stage and write in my own words what I learned:

• Making excuses

I learned that blaming other people for 'weighing you down' only harms your performance more.

• Catastrophizing the future

Don't look into a moment that isn't now too much as it will put you off and make you feel down and overthink loads.

• Seeking audience approval

Theres no point seeking for others approval as at the end of the day it is only you who matters to yourself. Don't care about anyone else opinions 

• Believing self-doubt

Insecurity sneaks in and kills your dreams. If you walk into a job interview thinking I'm  never going to get hired, chances is you won't. A negative mindset will never lead to a positive one.

• Putting yourself down

If you wouldn't speak to someone the way that you speak to yourself, then don't allow yourself to say it to you.

• Second-guessing yourself

If you think about every choice you make it will impair your decision. 

Growth mindset: exploring growth mindset beyond school

              Growth mindset

I feel like when I am in work I experience the strongest growth mindset as after being in college all week and then having to go into work for 8 hours, it can be draining. But I go in with a good mindset and attitude to it as I know if I feel tired and unmotivated I will be in a bad mood all day and I like to be happy to customers.

I would also say just every day I use growth mindset as I feel that I have such a busy schedule and I need to make time for myself to relax and be with friends/family so whenever I feel down or unmotivated I will just remind myself that all of this hard work will pay off one day and I will have all of the time in the world (not really, kind of) to spend relaxing watching Netflix etc.

Growth Mindset

Carol Dweck

Carol Dweck studies human motivation, she looks into why people succeed or don't succeed and what we can do to foster success.

Her research looks into the origins of different mindsets, their role in motivation and their impact on achievement and interpersonal processes.

         

The first bit of research that I got about growth mindset was from the first video that was linked on the website 'The power of believing that you can improve'

I immediately got drawn into what Carol said about the school in Chicago where if students failed there courses they got the grade NY (not yet) I thought that this was really good as it doesn't straight up say that you have failed but it gives you hope into the future as you are still on a learning curve and haven't been told that you can not carry on.

She speaks about praising wisely, not the talent of people as it has failed, it is better to praise people on their process and their intelligence rather. This is very true because when you are young your always rewarded and treated if you pass your spelling test or do well in your yearly exam, but yet never praised for studying and trying hard despite the end result.

From researching into Carol Dweck and her theories, I totally agree with everything that she says about rewarding children on their effort and not always on their outcome. I would say that I struggled a bit in school with certain subjects such as Maths and although some students weren't as well academically, all of the students at the end of the day are lumped into the one class where everyone is showing their grades and what they got, and for the few people who didn't do as well it is hard for them to feel that they did well when others got 90-100%


Before writing this blog post about Carol Dweck and researching about her and what she does I had never heard of her before. I am glad that I did because I feel that it has definitely changed my perspective on work and the outcome of your grades etc. I think that she is right when she says that children should not just be rewarded if they got an A or a B but despite the grade, the work and time that they put into it.
            

Thanks for reading :)) -KT x