Mindset 1,2

Throughout my life, all the things I have been trying to do is to get validation. The story should begin when I was a student.  From primary school to Junior high school, I had been the top student in the class.  In other words, I had never gone through failure before I went to senior high school. So entering senior high, I seized every opportunity to prove my ability and wanted to be from others in the way I was in primary school and senior high. So during senior high, my school life was miserable since I never got the attention I got before.  Even now, I especially attention to the grades I taught because I thought their grade would show my ability. Their grades are bad and I am not a good teacher. Today, I still remember the moment when my college classmates gave me big applause because I did a good job. At that moment, I felt special, different and superior. It was at that moment that I felt I was smart. I live for that feeling.

So it is easy to tell that I have the fixed mindset. I go all out to prove my ability and believe that I was born to be special. I pay more attention to the result instead of the method to improve. If something challenges me and makes me unimportant, I will lose interest in it. After reading the first two chapters of the book, I know that success comes from constant efforts and one’s ability is not carved in stone. I should be a learner. And the life is a long race and only the one keeping learning has the last laugh. After all, becoming is better than being. When confronted challenges, I should realize it is an opportunity to make progress.