My Growth Mindset

While I like the concept of “not yet” I do feel as though there would be some downsides for me personally. For instance, if I knew that I could slack off and receive a grade of “not yet” then I may not attempt to apply myself and reach my full capabilities. Say I did graduate high school and went on to college but had that mindset of “not yet”, will I actually apply myself in a highly competitive college and work world? Unfortunately the work world doesn’t believe in the “not yet” mindset and if you are not able to achieve what you need to succeed in a timely manner than you run the risk of being let go for somebody who can. Although I do find some of the above mentioned as issues, I do feel like there is some good in this mindset. On a personal level I do have the mindset of “not yet” in some of the things that I do, though not always academic nor work related. If I don’t first succeed at something I don’t get down on myself but rather reassess the situation, look at ways to learn or improve myself and return to whatever it is that I was working on. More recently an example of something that I’m working at using this mindset for, though previously to this assignment I was unaware that it was a mindset that had been well studied, is post op knee surgery, physical therapy, and recovery. I have to remind myself that I am not a failure because I am unable to reach the range of motion that I had originally planned and worked for but that I just am “not yet” at that point in my recovery but with work and patience it will come. I suppose that while I do have some issues with this mindset in academics and in the workforce that it is not necessarily a bad mindset to have if you are able to know when to use it rather than slacking and taking advantage of it. The image below is something that I do try to strive for and I can see how the growth mindset could assist in accomplishing this.

Source: growth mindset meme blog