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    W03 Application Activity: Mindset: Instructions

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    This document is a student's response to an application activity about growth and fixed mindsets. The student defines a growth mindset as embracing challenges and seeing failure as an opportunity to improve, while a fixed mindset believes abilities are innate and limits improvement. The student recalls failing to communicate during an English discussion while serving a mission. Though feeling depressed, the student persisted in studying and asking for help daily. This response to failure demonstrates a growth mindset by applying continuous effort to overcome difficulties rather than feeling limited by perceived lack of ability.

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    This document is a student's response to an application activity about growth and fixed mindsets. The student defines a growth mindset as embracing challenges and seeing failure as an opportunity to improve, while a fixed mindset believes abilities are innate and limits improvement. The student recalls failing to communicate during an English discussion while serving a mission. Though feeling depressed, the student persisted in studying and asking for help daily. This response to failure demonstrates a growth mindset by applying continuous effort to overcome difficulties rather than feeling limited by perceived lack of ability.

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    W03 Application Activity: Mindset

    Name: Fatima Guadalupe Godoy Rojas

    Overview
    This week, a large part of your Life Skill Lesson focused on how you can become a more capable
    learner. You learned that one of the main ways you can do this is by adopting a growth
    mindset. For this week’s Application Activity, you will explore the differences between a fixed
    and growth mindset and then evaluate them within the context of your own life experience.

    Instructions
    To complete this activity, please answer the following questions:

    Imagine that you have a friend or family member that has never heard of a growth or fixed
    mindset before and would like to know more.

    1. In a paragraph (3-4 sentences), describe the differences between a growth and fixed
    mindset. Include in your answer what makes them different and what the usual
    outcome each mindset is.

    A fixed mindset and growth mindset are totally opposite: the first one is based on the
    belief we have born with a sort of “amount of intelligence”. That means our
    improvement is limited, there isn`t any interest on try new things. While a growth
    mindset embraces challenges and failures as an opportunity of progress. When we
    attempt on developing a growth mindset our brain become stronger and more capable
    on learning.

    Think back on your own life and challenges and pick one instance where you failed at
    something. Next, answer each of the following questions in paragraph form (3-4 sentences).

    1. What were you trying to accomplish?

    When I went to my mission I needed to learn a new language, English. I knew a little bit
    before going to the Provo`s MTC. I remembered the first time I gave a discussion and
    could not express almost anything.

    2. How did you feel when you failed?

    When I finished the discussion I felt I wasn`t enough, depressed and wanted to come
    back to my safe and known home. I compared myself to other missionaries who seem to
    learn faster and better than me. It was a “bitter cup” among the experience that was
    supposed to be one of the best experience of my life.
    3. How did you respond to those feelings?

    However the language was a challenge along my mission, I didn`t give up and kept
    trying. I decided to rely on the Spirit and what was the purpose why I was there. Every
    day I studied, practiced and asked for help to those around me.

    4. Drawing on what you know about growth and fixed mindsets, would you say that your
    response was more of a fixed mindset or a growth mindset? Why or why not?

    I think I tried to do my best. I didn`t resing to the fact English was hard to learn but not
    impossible. It responds to a growth mindset because I put my effort and willing to
    overcome what it was hard at that moment.

    5. If you feel you responded with a growth mindset, what strategies did you apply to avoid
    having a fixed mindset? If you feel you responded with a fixed mindset, what strategies
    do you feel you could have applied (and could apply to future situations) to have a
    growth mindset about failure instead?

    Even though the failures and negative feelings, I look every day new learning methods
    and asking for help to others around me. Recognizing I was enough and didn`t depend
    on if I was o not “smart” or even I have studied English or not I could do this and express
    my love and testimony in an new language. And most important I needed to humble
    myself and increase my faith on the future.

    Save this document with your name in the filename and follow the instructions in your course
    to submit it for grading and feedback.

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