Intellectual Discovery Strategies

The assignment is a reflection on how to deal with failure and understand Grit and Mind-set theories. The author talks about their experiences with failure and how they have learned from them. They also discuss their scores on the grit and mind-set tests and how they plan to use this knowledge in the future.

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Intellectual Discovery Strategies
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It is a well-established fact that the intellectual talent helps in the achievement and
conquering all the professional realms (Santilli et al., 2014). The assignment is a reflection on
how I dealt with failure in the past and how my understanding of Grit and Mind-set theories
might influence my next experience in the future.
Reflective response- Failures in life is one of the most common part of life. Failures help
in moving up in life only if a person is willing to learn from it. I have experienced failures on life
but the extent to which I have experienced is not the same every time. Failures are bound to
occur when I had performed a task and I was unable to deliver it properly. There were instances
where I have seen that performing or undertaking a task for the first time was tough and the
process of grinding through the entire procedure has resulted into failure (Kapur, 2016). There
were times where I have faced a lot of hardship to overcome the failure and sometimes the
process the was easy. Accepting the failure is also a tough job considering the unwilling nature
tendency of mine to accept a situation of failure. I would like to mention that persistent failure
and the persistent nature of a person to not accept the failure is the most desirable traits of the
humans. I have felt that the real failure is when a person stops trying and backs down.
Understanding of Grit and Mind-set theories- Undertaking the grit test, I have score
3.33. The grit score speaks that if the score moves towards the 5 then the person is extremely
gritty (Duckworth et al., 2007). While if the person has the score of 1 then they are not at all
gritty. My score depicts that I am neither low in grit nor I am extremely gritty. Being in the
middle of the scale I exhibit the gritty characters in me. After the taking the mind-set test, I have
scored 28. The score which is exhibit have revealed that I have both the growth and fixed mind-
set. The score reveals that in some areas of my life I will be able to embrace new challenges and
stretch myself. While I am conservative in certain aspects of my life. I have examples in my life

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where I have tried new things and I have the positive emotions that are associated with the
adventure and discovery (Math.uic.edu, 2018). My challenge is to develop more amount of
consistency and remove the self-limiting factors that were preventing me from realizing my full
potential. The tests helped me to gain an insight into my mind-set and my degree of grittiness. In
future I will be able to know myself in a better way and I think I need to have more perseverance
so that I can take up more challenging tasks in the long run and be successful in life.

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Reference
Duckworth, A. L., Peterson, C., Matthews, M. D., & Kelly, D. R. (2007). Grit: perseverance and
passion for long-term goals. Journal of personality and social psychology, 92(6), 1087.
Kapur, M. (2016). Examining productive failure, productive success, unproductive failure, and
unproductive success in learning. Educational Psychologist, 51(2), 289-299.
Math.uic.edu. (2018). What is your mindset?. Retrieved from
https://www.math.uic.edu/~bshipley/MindsetQuiz.w.scores.pdf
Santilli, S., Nota, L., Ginevra, M. C., & Soresi, S. (2014). Career adaptability, hope and life
satisfaction in workers with intellectual disability. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 85(1),
67-74.