Feedback Thoughts
When it comes to making progress within yourself and increasing your mental capacity, having a growth mindset is essential. The only true limit of one's abilities when you stop striving to achieve with what's given to you and what you created over time by yourself. I enjoy this article about fixed mindsets versus growth mindsets, as it definitely can be applied to the average college student. Those who struggle with self esteem would feel that if their intelligence was locked to a certain level, it explains why they cannot achieve what they are searching for in life because they would rather assume they are beneath their peers and gain the necessary knowledge to make their dreams a reality. With a growth mindset, failure is nothing but fuel for one to work harder and gain the abilities to get over whatever adversities that may come your way. I personally agree with the idea that a growth mindset surpasses a fixed mindset, because holding a growth mindset allows for one to open doors that would've stayed shut with a fixed mindset, like learning new skills, making new connections, and being able to self-reflect and see what one needs to improve within themselves.
Being able to have a growth mindset also goes hand in hand with handling negative feedback, because the details of having a growth mindset involves being able to tolerate and analyze negative feedback. An article by the New York Times A positive mentality is taking negative feedback and seeing where it comes from, and why the opinion exists at all. Once you are able to understand why you received negative feedback, and see it as an opportunity to improve on who you are, thereby creating a better version of you for the future. With a fixed mindset on the other hand, one would just give up after receiving criticism because their mentality led them to believe that they did not hold the power to fix things and change things as a god.
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