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Growth Mindset Beyond School     I love going to the gym and exercising everyday. It's a time for me to get out of my house, shut my laptop, turn my phone off, and get as much energy out that I can. You have to be determined in the gym and not be lazy. If you are, you could hurt yourself or even those around you. I think exercising in the gym disciplines me and allows me to truly see how far I can actually push myself. It's also just an awesome way to better yourself mentally, physically, and spiritually. If you don't exercise and are reading this, I HIGHLY recommend. Typical Weights in a Gym. Pixabay

 Learning about Carol Dweck's ideas of growth mindset, I have to say there are some thing I agree with and some things I disagree with, like many others. In my opinion, Dweck, especially in her TedTalk, talks mainly of the students: what their problem is, what they can do to improve, their mindset when learning, etc. I feel like she's putting a lot of the blame on the student in a way. This is what Dave Paunesku centers his article around: what a learning environment can do better, what that environments problem is, and essentially amending the school system.  I'm totally on Dweck's side about motivated students. If a student is not motivated, well then there's absolutely nothing even the best system can do to motivate that student. I firmly believe that no matter how good of a system you have going, there will always be a few individuals that simply aren't interested in education.  Difficult is not impossible.  Growth mindset meme blog