Growth Mindset

Not yet:

Anyone who has ever failed a class, or anything for that matter, knows just how devastating it can be. It seems like no matter how much effort you have put in or how much progress you have made that one word erases it all. Because I have failed a class, my favorite concept from the video was the idea that instead of receiving a failing grade, one school employed the term "not yet." to signify the student still had more to learn. If any of my grade-school teachers had used this concept, I feel as though I would have developed a growth mindset much sooner. Throughout my time here at the University, I have unknowingly developed a growth mindset after realizing that in order to truly understand and do well with a class one must struggle through it. For me personally, if I do not struggle with a new topic at first I wonder if I really understand it.  That being said I was initially very impressed with the Growth Mindset and the concept of rewarding effort and progress rather than intelligence.  Being an engineering major here at the University I am constantly challenging myself to master difficult course work, and even though I have had no previous knowledge of the growth mindset I feel as though it is already something I employ, at least at a basic level. 

(Growth Mindset, credit to John Golden, Math Hombre Blog