- Neuroplasticity & Growth mindset
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Neuroplasticity
Understanding how ones brain works helps to improve how we develop and utilize it better. Realising that the brain can be molded and isn't fixed is great for learning new skills. This means that actively practicing new skills often is a great way to improve in that area. I'm going to implement the principles of neuroplasticity by believing in my ability to learn new skills. The key to this will be a constant flow of practicing these new skills, everyday that is possible. This will help make neural highways in my brain and turn me into a super duper developer. Along with this, doing the basics for my health will be essential. I'll continue to sleep, eat and exercise and complete my mindfulness to keep myself at peak performance. I found this article to be a helpful resource on explaining neuroplasticity.
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Growth mindset
The growth mindset is about seeing obstacles as an opportunity to better yourself instead of a bar you have to overcome. Challenges are a chance for growth in your life and not a pass/fail situation (which is the fixed mindset).What I found interesting about this topic was changing my approach of learning and applying skills to have the attitude of "not yet" instead of "I failed" or "I can't do this". Having a growth mindset means that you constantly look for challenges and are confident to face them head on and get stuck in. If you can't complete the challenge then you still imrpoved and learnt something, you didn't fail. Having a mindset like this helps people to improve and learn new concepts at a much faster rate. Having a growth mindset is often found in intelligent people as they are regularly challenging themselves and aren't afraid of failure. I found this article to be engaging on the subject of having a growth mindset.
These concepts already have a place in my learning plan I believe. Practicing my skills and learning new ones often is something I'm striving for and is great for moulding my fluid brain. The growth mindset will take longer for me to fully embrace. I'm someone who has been scared of failure and this has pushed me in the past to work hard. Having a lighter approach to failure and trying to focus on the learning instead of the result will be a good shift, it might take a while to get there.