Nathan Wallace's Mindset: The New Psychology Of Success

I have always been a child who loved going to school and learning new things. Perhaps being one of the youngest in a big family and seeing my older siblings go to school created this drive in me, but from an early age, I was excited about learning. I grew up in a home where the effort was very much emphasized, as children, it was always instilled in us that we could achieve anything if we put our minds to it. Because of this growth-oriented atmosphere at home, I was always a good student. I worked hard, I got good grades. Even in the subjects that were more difficult for, it wasn’t the grade on the top of the paper that mattered, it was the effort that was put in. The only time my parents were disappointed in a grade was when we did not put

If you have only a certain amount of intelligence, a certain personality, and a certain moral character—well, then you’d better prove that you have a healthy dose of them. It simply wouldn’t do to look or feel deficient in these most basic characteristics. (Dweck, 2006)” Wallace equates his failure in grade school and then in high school, primarily with the fact that he believed that, either a person was intelligent or he wasn’t, and you couldn’t change it. He had a fear that if he tried and didn’t do well he would be looked at as stupid because either your smart or you’re not. In his eyes, it was much more preferable as a child to be looked at as a kid who would be smart if he tried then a kid who wasn’t smart at all. Having a fixed mindset makes one feel threatened at all times because one lives their life having to live up to the standard of society, and you live with the constant fear of

Nathan Wallace and Yuki Sasao’s moving articles about their personal growth with this changing of mindsets enforced what had already been instilled in me growing up. That when the world that surrounds you says that it's not in your skill set to succeed and that you should stay in your comfort zone, you need to push through to earn bigger and greater accomplishments. The smart measure survey opened my eyes to the different areas of my academic self and showed me where I could improve my study habits. I feel academically ready to the school workload as I have been successful in school in the past and due to the fact that I don’t have many outside distractions to take me away from my school work. Help-seeking is not a strong individual asset, I have a hard time asking the authority for help when I don’t understand. I also struggle with procrastinating, although I get everything done, I have a hard time starting my work in advance, I prefer to do it the night or two nights before its due. My learning style is aural, or auditory-musical. I notice that when I study I have music in the background in order to help me focus and to help me remember the material I am studying. There are times while during a test I will think of the song I listened to while studying and the information