Saturday, September 14, 2013

3A Good or Bad?

“There is nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so.” –Shakespeare

At first this quote was hard for me to understand but I think what Shakespeare is trying to say by this is that how you think determines if you see things as being good or bad. For example, if you get a 75 on a test that you tried you’re hardest on would you be happy or disappointed? Some people may be happy because they gave there all others would be upset because if they had studied or payed more attention they could have gotten a higher score. In other words depending on how you view things and think things out determine whether you see something as good or bad.

Growth mindset is when you are open minded and you want to better yourself where as fixed mindset is belief in fixed intelligence in other words your born with it. Therefore if you read this quote and you say to your self that you mostly think positively and always look for the positive sides of something then you would have a growth mindset. If your one that’s pessimistic and sees the glass half empty then you have a fixed mindset.

Intrinsic and extrinsic motivation also relate to Shakespeare’s quote. Extrinsic motivation occurs when we are motivated to perform a behavior or engage in an activity in order to earn a reward or avoid a punishment; it is the motivation we get from outside of us. Intrinsic motivation is our internal motivation. The motivation we have to do better and the love of learning. Intrinsic motivation would have to do with a growth mindset because you want to better your learning. Extrinsic motivation goes with the fixed mindset; you don’t really go above and beyond as someone with a growth mindset would.



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