Self-Reflection on Grit and Mindset Theories for Future Growth

This essay reflects on the author's past experiences with failure and how understanding Grit and Mindset theories can influence future experiences. The author discusses their grit score of 3.33, indicating moderate grittiness, and a mindset score of 28, revealing a mix of growth and fixed mindsets. The essay highlights the importance of embracing challenges, developing consistency, and overcoming self-limiting factors to realize full potential. The author aims to use these insights to improve perseverance and approach challenging tasks more successfully in the future. Desklib provides similar essays and study resources for students.

Running head: INTELLECTUAL DISCOVERY STRATEGIES
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
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Kapur, M. (2016). Examining productive failure, productive success, unproductive failure, and
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Santilli, S., Nota, L., Ginevra, M. C., & Soresi, S. (2014). Career adaptability, hope and life
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