How do we define and understand mindset?

Quick Write:

If you could change any attribute or characteristic about yourself as a student, what would it be? Explain.

I really wouldn't want to change anything about myself as a student to be totally honest. Ive spent most of my time trying to change things about myself as far as being a student goes, But now that i have changed in such a drastic way, All that i am looking to do is improve on what i have already changed. For example i never used to get up early to make it to school on time, Now i do it everyday and it feels great to be able to get up in the morning and go through my daily routine before heading out to school. How would i improve on that? Simple, There are times were i will stay in bed just to get an extra 10mins in but i can always just get up. So its little things like that, In which i can change in order to improve on myself as a student overall.

REFLECTION:

Before you leave today, post a reflection at least one-paragraph in length connecting what you wrote in today's Quick Write to what you learned from your reading so far.

While reading I looked back at my quick write just to see if I what I wrote would connect with this first chapter. Now one thing I definitely learned is that there are 2 different mindsets in which individuals can carry the (fixed and growth) mindsets. I always understood that people could have certain mindsets that would either restrict or let them expand their normal thinking. What I didn't know is that one could have a fixed mindset which in my own interpretation means that one is already well-off and believes there is nothing more he/she can do in order to build on what they already have/know. I always believed that people have what is referred to as a "growth" mindset in that, No matter if they have great or little knowledge that individual will still continue to learn and enhance what they already know. I think both mindsets are connected however, As you can changed from one mindset to the other with reasons. Now this is something I would like to learn more about is that; Why and How would a person change from a growth to a fixed mindset or from a fixed mindset to the growth mindset. Once I learn what are the causes and effects I will better underlying question which is "how do we define and understand mindset?".