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This just confuses me. I don't get the point or what I'm supposed to learn from this. I thought this was a poor post because I just didn't see how that was interesting. Oh well! Guess you can't like everything! =)
I thought this was very interesting. It shows that being smart doesn't come naturally, and if you're "not smart", you can still learn more and become smarter. I think this changes people's point of view.
I thought that this was a very well written article. It shows that a growth mind-set is better to have, because it enables a person to believe that their mind can change. It can be discouraging when other people around you appear to be doing better, therefore causing you sometimes to put yourself down as "not smart". I think that some of it is genetics, and some people are born with certain abilities such as good memory, or being good at math. But these do not come in such a way that they do not have to try hard. If somebody has a growth mind-set, then they know that they have to exercise that ability, to keep it and make it stronger. It is like with sports, for example. I used to be really good at push-ups, but then I realized they started getting harder, so I practiced and did well. When, at a time, I stopped practicing, and tried to do them another time, I just couldn't do it very well. This is because I had not been exercising this ability. I think with learning, it is important to know yourself, and work with that. This article was really great to help people realize that.
Well said Maya and Danielle! There are so many interesting things about learning theory that we are always trying to study. Is learning innate,acquired, or both?
This article was kind of confusing, but I can see how believing that your mind can change can help your learning. If you are certain that you are dumb and nothing can make you smart, than you are entitled to less success in school because you believe that you cannot be smart.
Like Anaïs said, this is confusing. I didn't find it interesting at all. I'm not sure if it proves what it says it should. It certainly made me think another way, but it may not have been that accurate. It was well written, but still I didn't like it.
I think this the "if you think you can do it, you will be able to do it" affect (whatever it is called)
Its interesting as if you can trick your thoughts and mindset to change even your I.Q this is also said to help during long work outs because of the stamina needed
I didn't really like it because it said that I think that intelligence is fixed but I don't think at all intelligence is fixed.
@ Etta: You're right tat intelligence isn't fixed, but I think that it meant IQ, which is pretty much fixed. The average person can only gain/lose about 10 IQ points in their lifetime.
@ Ms. Ghazarian: I think that learning is both innate and acquired. For example, a human at birth already knows how to cry, but it does not know how to walk. Not very much as innate, though. Tons can be acquired, but it varies based on IQ because you can only learn so much if you learn slowly. However, I think that everyone can learn the same amount of material innately.
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@ Eli: I think the truly puzzling thing is that we are the brain, per se. Your body is but a shell for yourself. The amazing thing is that you can't really tickle yourself, because you know that you will do it, but this seems that you can trick yourself into becoming more intelligent.
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