In order to obtain a growth mindset a person is through a continuous sense of grit. To have a growth mindset is to believe you can change your qualities. While the definition of grit is “sticking with things over a very long term until you master them”. Grit is an essential trait for someone hoping to obtain a growth mindset because there are always going to have the drive and commitment to persevere and change. An example of this is a person whose felt like they have given their all and still fails, uses that failure to push them above and beyond that obstacle. The article, “Angela Duckworth and the Research on Grit” by Emily Hanford, give various examples of what it means to be gritty. “On one study, Duckworth found that smarter students actually had less grit than their peers who scored lower…Among the study participants-…people who are not as …show more content…
This article provides multiples comparisons of “Fixed mindsets” to “Growth mindsets”. One example provided is “When I wrote the Vignette, I intentionally made the grade a C+, not a F. It was a midterm rather than a final. It was a parking ticket, not a car wreck. They were “sort of brushed off” not rejected out right… Yet from this raw material, the fixed mindset created the feeling of other failure and paralysis. When I gave people with a growth mindset… here’s what they’d think:” I need to try harder in class, be more careful when parking the car, and wonder if my friend had a bad day.” The C+ would tell me that I’d have to work a lot harder in the class, but I have the rest of the semester to pull up my grades.”(Pg. 77). This shows that people with growth mindsets are always looking to expand and better themselves and achieve higher than regularly possible. while on the other hands those of fixed mindsets are content with cruising through life scraping by. These comparisons demonstrate the connections between a growth mindset and being