Fixed Mindset Analysis

In the video, the speaker, Eduardo Briceno, talked about growth mindset and fixed mindset. With a fixed mindset we look towards our life as what will happen will happen, we think that we know what we know and we can’t learn or develop in ways that aren’t predetermined for us to grow in. So, when we hit an obstacle that we don’t know how to pass we will just sit there forever, go back or have to wait for someone else to get us over the obstacle. However, with a growth mindset we look towards our life and think that there may become obstacles that stop us, but that we can learn a way to get over them and do better even with our grades in school, for example. There was a study where several hundreds of seventh graders were surveyed to determine

So, when you are looking at your schedule and you realize that you have two presentations to give in classes this week, and your first reaction is to start swearing, then a couple of things might happen. If you have a fixed mindset, then you are likely going to put off working on the speeches until the night before each and what happens, happens. You might get a good grade because you are lucky enough to know a lot about the subject. However chances are you are just going to be ill-prepared and get a B at best on them. However, if you have a growth mindset you are more likely to look at this as a perfect opportunity to improve yourself. You go back to your room and you start writing your speeches, and when you finish you clear sometime out to go over it a few times, you go ahead and do the speeches a few times, in your room or maybe in front of a mirror, or you call your buddy over and tell them that you will pay them back for this or something, but you need to run over your speech with an audience and have them give some reactions at the end to give some advice. Depending on that advice, you go ahead and make some changes and if need be run through it again. This is called Systematic Desensitization it is a method used to help get over Communication Apprehension, and in a situation like this, you