Chance or Choice?

This first year of college is where we start to figure out the real world. All our lives, although we have been introduced to adult situations, have been babied and guided. Now that we are in college we are learning just how to manage our time and are changing to have a different mindset.

I bet when you were in high school you never asked yourself how your brain physiologically worked. I know I personally never thought that there would be a name for the way I thought. That is why it is important to be reading about it now. We are in college. Our lives are in our own hands and having a great mindset is what will make us different from people that can achieve and people who are incompetent.

Mindset, the book we are reading for class is mainly showing us the difference between a growth thinker and a fixed thinker. It explores situations such business, relationships, and other interesting categories.

For my choice read, I picked chapter 6: relationships. It was interesting to go through and see how a growth thinker is so different from a fixed thinker. It also showed me that I am very much a growth thinker. In a quick view, a growth thinker will be able to overcome and work on problems. A fixed thinker on the other hand believes that the relationship is determined from the start and does not fix even the slightest of problems. I find this concept the easiest to understand. As a person with a fixed mindset will forever believe they can not be changed.

These two mindsets remind me of the question of fate or chance. People with a fixed mindset would say everything is fate; it is all predetermined. People with a mindset that is always growing would choose chance. They believe that you learn from your past situations so you can pick the right one when you are faced with it again.

All this relates to what we are talking about in class because it is all about who you are and how to change into a successful person. Learning about agency and the determination needed to succeed is all determined by the mindset we are in.