27A - Reading Reflection No. 3

I read Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck

• What was the general theme or argument of the book?
• The general effort of Mindset was to express the dichotomy between the two proposed mindsets which are fixed mindset and growth mindset. Fixed mindset is structures by group of people feel self validation for attempt to recuperate from a failed event. People with fixed mindsets consequently think success is about proving you are smart or talented. The paranoia of being judged is also inherently attributed from people with fixed mindsets. However, people who demonstrate to have growth mindset focuses on how someone can improve themselves from within. The growth mindset is about stretching your mind to learn new things and becoming the best version of yourself.
• How did the book, in your opinion, connect with and enhance what you are learning in ENT 3003?
• Absolutely, the notion of self realization and being true to you own instinctual outlook to your entrepreneurial footprint is address both in the class and in the book. I feel like the class really helped in discovering the voice from within that exposes all that we would want to test out as business concepts. This book actually made me appreciate the act of taking this class because it made realize the process Dr. Pryor is trying to set a basis for our creative embarkment in instilling our dream concepts.
• If you had to design an exercise for this class, based on the book you read, what would that exercise involve?
• I would make the student create a writing response about their perspective is about confronting failure. The assignment would consist of asking the students for their approach to preferring a particular mindset that must be honed to practically achieve the hard to reach goals in life. I would have the students depict which mindset would be predominantly used by successful people.
• What was your biggest surprise or 'aha' moment when reading the book? In other words, what did you learn that the differed most from your expectation.
• As I got to the part in describing the differentiation between a fixed mindset and growth mindset, the definition start to relate to some of my approaches to psychologically overcoming failure. I felt that I shared a lot of attributes to the fixed mindset because I do  subconsciously feel that it is important to live up to certain social standard. However, I did realize that I execute overcoming failure with the growth mindset because evolution is one my main life themes that help self development.