Growth Mindset Challenge: Not Yet Mentality

These past few weeks I have been really down on myself. I am always really stressed and freaking out about my grades. I am honestly just so tired of it. I am really discouraged and just bummed. I made a bad grade on my Physical Chemistry test while my friends did really well. It just stinks. I am really stressed about my future and getting into graduate school. I want to change my mindset into a growth mindset instead of my panicky fixed mindset. I just have too much pride I guess, and I have a lot of people to answer to. It is just really hard. This week I have decided to work on changing my mindset from fixed to growth. I know that it will probably take me a lot longer than a week to change that, but I need to start trying now because I am so tired of constantly feeling this way. Whenever I fail, believe me that will happen a lot this week, I am going to try the “not yet” mentality. This is my goal! I am going to really try and do this!

Just Keep Going!

Growth Mindset: Stop Being Negative

I really want to work on becoming a more positive person. I read 6 Bad Mental Habits That Sabotage Your Success. I am working on training for my 9th marathon and with school it is getting to be a demanding task. I want to get better and get faster and stronger. I tend to be so hard on myself and always putting myself down. Sometimes I even question myself and start to panic which I know I should not because I am capable.

Dream Big

6 Bad Mental Habits that Sabotage Your Success.

Growth Mindset

I was first introduced to growth mindset last year in psychology. We hardly talked about it in class, but I found it to be very interesting. We learned that there are two different kinds of mindsets, fixed or growth. I hate to say it, but I am classic fixed mindset. I have always been the kind of person that always wants to make A's and so afraid of failure. I think our society does not help either. I just took my MCAT and applying to medical school this summer. Medical schools do not give you a 'not yet,' they give you a huge harsh rejection. Now, medical schools expect you to have A's. Getting B's are not enough anymore. If you do not have at least a 3.7 GPA then you are not considered competitive. It is extremely stressful! Those huge rejection makes it hard not to take it as defining who you are as a person.

Failure hurts but it does not define me. 

Cheeseburger

I think I have the fixed mindset mostly in my life except traveling and adventure. If that even can remotely makes sense. I am always up for a grand trip to anywhere. I love hiking, kayaking, camping, running, anything that is challenging and outdoors. I think that I would like to have more of a growth mindset when it comes to becoming a doctor, after all that is my ultimate goal. I do not want to look at it as a timeline and having to get to point B in X amount of time. That is one thing that I want to change.