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Growth Mindset: Look for the Positive and Breathe

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"You Will Be Okay" I need to remind myself this every day. I stress at work because I need more time, then I stress about school and homework because I need more time, and then I stress because I don't have time for myself. Sometimes you just have to breathe and remember that "you will be okay." "Find the Lesson" This post was talking about failure. We aren't really geared by society to go out and find the failure to learn from. Instead, we're taught that failure is something negative. But if I can apply myself to realize that failure is an opportunity to learn, things look a little more positive. Mental Health

The Growth Mindset

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I found myself agreeing with many of the points Carol Dweck made about her idea of the Growth Mindset. My agreement comes from my own experience. The hardest classes I've taken in college have been the ones that I came out feeling the most accomplished with upon completion. I took off a semester in the fall of 2017 and returned that following spring. I can remember when I started college I tried to avoid speaking in class, interaction with professors or classmates and trying to pick the classes that would allow me to sit in the safety of my bedroom for assignments. When I returned in the spring I enrolled in my classes and soon discovered that there were several assignments I was going to have to step outside of my comfort zone to do. I made the mental decision to buckle down and just do it, and I came out, in the end, feeling like I had grown in ability. Dweck's ideas brought me back to that. It's most definitely worth the risk of stepping outside of that comfort zone be...