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My experience on Growth Mindset

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Before I got offered a place in the course that I'm doing now, I had an extremely fixed mindset when it came to secondary school work and exams. I almost always failed at my classes and had disappointing teacher/parent meetings to the point that my mam stopped going to them because they would always say the same things. Teachers would always express disappointment in my grades and whenever I did slightly better than before it was never good enough. Looking back on it now, I don't really miss secondary school because of how much I didn't like it. I hated the grades system and I hated their negative feedback! Going to college was probably the best decision I have ever made, I feel like I have more control over my assignments and projects, the feedback I get helps me improve extremely and I don't want to give up when it comes to a challenge because I can do things my way instead of having to follow something by the book like secondary schools teach.  I never really heard o...