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Growth Mindset, Grit and Technology

Last year I wrote a post  Blogging and Growth Mindset, More Connected Than You Think.  which detailed how you can leverage the reflection process built within blogging to grow the growth mindset in yourself and your learners. I would like to continue that conversation here with what I intend to be a series of posts on developing conscious thought patterns that lead us toward the Growth Mindset. First, let's continue on the thought pattern that reflection can lead us toward a growth mindset. Beware, I'm about to go down a rabbit-hole, but I swear it'll come full circle! The stories that you tell yourself about yourself, your habits, your abilities are all an echo chamber and a self-fulfilling prophecy. These stories are running in the background of your mind each time you make an action or choice. When I make a silly error tell yourself the story that "I'm not good with technology.", whether you voice it aloud or you tell yourself the story silently in your