Assignment 21A – Reading Reflection No. 2
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What was the general theme or argument of the
book?
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In the book Mindset:
The new Psychology of Success, by Carol Dweck, she explains the way your
mindset can determine your life. She states the difference between a growth
mindset and a fixed mindset, and why you should pursue a growth mindset. Her
explanation of a growth mindset basically is that if you don’t succeed, you try
until you do. Her thought on expertise is that it is not a fixed ability, and
can evolve through purposeful engagement. Essentially what she is saying is
that with the growth mindset, you can positively affect the way you lead your
life.
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How did the book, in your opinion, connect with
and enhance what you are learning in ENT3003?
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This book connects with this course by focusing
on a moving forward mindset. Her preach is that successful people come from
those who enjoy failure, and solving the problem. One of the hardest things for
entrepreneurs is encountering failure and this book explains how to take the
failure in a positive way.
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If you had to design an exercise for this class,
based on the book you read, what would that exercise involve?
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After reading this book I realized how different
the 2 mindsets are. I think a useful exercise would be determining what you can
do to make yourself geared more towards the growth side. Maybe through
interviews with close friends, we could also find examples of when we succeeded
before to apply it to the reading.
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What was your biggest surprise or ‘aha’ moment when
reading the book? In other words, what did you learn that differed most from
your expectations?
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Realizing how many examples of when people used
the mindset to their ability. Quotes by Alex Rodriguez and Benjamin Barber give
easy interpretations of the main concept. Proving how important your mindset in
can be empowering if used correctly.
Hey David! It seems that...we read the same book :) Still, it's interesting to compare what you got out of it versus what I did. For the 3rd question about creating your own assignment, I also did something similar regarding you reflecting on past failures. But overall, I too found Dr. Dweck's book inspiring in the sense that the mind is the most powerful tool of success, and how you use it makes all the difference.
ReplyDeleteHi David, this book seems interesting in that it boils down to an attitude towards failure. The people who get frustrated and angry and just give up when faced with adversity tend to not get what they want later on because they don't learn from it. There's no adaptation, there's no growth. And the interesting thing is that many people say they learn from their experiences, yet they stay stagnant. For some reason, we all have a tendency to say "I'm going to learn from this" and then we forget whatever lesson we learned in a day or so.
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