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Growth Mindset

Before this assignment, I had never heard of Growth Mindset. However, the more I watched and read, the more interested I became in the concepts. I have a deep passion for learning and try my best everyday to be intentional about not only receiving the information in my classes but also using it to "grow" or deepen my overall understanding of life. It is important to me that whatever I learn here at OU, I am able to take with me for the entirety of my life after I graduate.

However, I think at times everyone can fall into having a fixed mindset. As much as I try and be alert and aware in class. I do occasionally find myself falling into a fixed pattern of merely getting the information only for the grade, especially in classes that I have limited interest in. It is not always correct and unfortunately, it is often the cause of missed information or even forgotten assignments on some occasions.

One of the things we were taught growing up was the importance of expanding on our personal knowledge. Our parents urged us to develop a love of reading, which was in their opinions, one of the best ways to gain knowledge, grow your mind, and learn to pay attention to other people's words and thoughts. That is something that I have taken with me for my entire life and something that I feel walks hand in hand with the Growth Mindset. Unless you continue your schooling, most people graduate after four years of college. At that point, many people stop learning. They stop growing. I'm a big reader. And I believe that you can learn a million things from one book, your mind can grow a hundred ways after reading one page. For me, I apply the Growth Mindset when it comes to reading. I read in order to gain an infinite amount of information. Not just finish a book and stash it away.

Here's a nice quote below that I think sums it all up nicely:


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  1. JaclyndlAMarch 21, 2019 at 4:55 PM

    Hi Lauryn,

    I really like your take on the Growth Mindset. When I read about it, I just took it as there is a fundamental problem in how we teach people to learn these days, but you definitely take it in a way where we should never stop learning. I totally agree with this idea, and I have often thought about how people just stop learning after college. I hope I continue to learn more every day!

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