Tuesday, September 22, 2015

Your Brain is Plastic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KLPxDtMqe8

Chapter 2: Inside the Mindsets



1. When do you feel smart?  When you're doing something flawlessly or when you're learning something new?

2. How can we shift our thinking/beliefs to make striving, stretching, and struggling into something that makes us feel smart?

3. Did you ever label yourself a failure or loser after something negative happened-failing a test, losing a job, being rejected?  Describe a time this happened.  How could you have made more like Jim Marshall, who made his humiliating experience into a life changing opportunity?


Chapter 1: The Mindsets

1. As you read through Chapter 1 what:
a) surprised you?
b) made you feel uncomfortable?
c) did you agree/disagree with?


2. Can you think of a time you faced an important opportunity or challenge with a fixed mindset?  What were your thoughts and worries about your abilities? about other people's judgements? about the possibility of failure? Describe these situations.



Mindset Graphic