The Importance Of Negative Thoughts

“Mindsets are an important part of your personality, but you can change them.”(Dweck 46) Carol Dweck author of Mindset: The New Psychology of Success says this because mindsets aren’t permanent and you are able to change your mindset about anything. How you approach things in life and what mindset you use toward it can affect the outcome of what occurs. How you take the results of how you did can affect the future of how you go about doing things. One of the reoccurring themes of the growth mindset is trying a new approach at a goal or a situation that you don’t know how to go about.

According to Judy Willis, “When you are experiencing highly negative emotions or severe stress, incoming information is routed to a different part of your brain”. When the high-level thinking happens, the information routed is to the reactive lower brain. When that happens, the memory is affected, all active learning stops. A fourth way is recognized and valuing incremental progress boosts a person’s motivation and enables him or her to deal effectively with setbacks. According to Dweck, “people with growth mindsets, believe their abilities can be developed though dedication and hard work- brains and talent are just the starting point. This view creates a love of learning and a resilience that is essential for great accomplishment. Virtually all great people have these qualities.” With a growth mindset, people realized by having a failure in the past don’t mean they will in the future.

In many situations the fixed mindset has lead me to failure; in sports, in school etc. It has lead me to failure because, for example, when playing volleyball if the opposing team shows that they aren’t as good at the game

It is not mentally not looking at circumstances with eyes that see only what you want to see”. In other words using Positive Self-Talk shows us the truth on real situations. For example: you were trying out for the school volleyball team and you messed up on bumping the ball, when the negative thoughts occur that is when the positive self talk will take place “ok I’m now going to focus on what I need to complete in order to make it on the team.” There is a way in which you can develop a positive self talk habit, there are 3 steps and the first one is “Mantra”, choose a mantra and find a positive self talk for example; “I feel strong”. This positive self talk will encourage you to feel motivated. The second step is “Practice Multiple Scenarios”after using the positive self talk from step one, repeat the line so you can practice having it sink in your brain. It will help you during real situations in sports a example for this step is “Anything can happen, and I’m definitely not out of this, Don’t let up”. Finally, the last step called “Creating A Positive Mental Image Or Visualization” this technique can help you create a visual picture on what you are doing and saying This powerful combination will create a positive message.

The author explains how individuals with a fixed mindset are always a failure and are not able to be successful because they do not have confidence, and they do not put enough effort for improvement. The author is persuading and encouraging the people with fixed mindset, to start working hard, have confidence about themselves, think positive about themselves, never think about the negative side that their intelligence is not changeable, and if you did a mistake it is not the end of the world, but you can still fix and learn from your

There are two different mindsets that help to shape our lives, fixed and growth. In Mindset by Carol Dweck, these two methods are compared in how they affect the lives of individuals. Dweck focuses around the growth mindset being a better alternative to the fixed mindset, with the following reasons: Challenges - Fixed mindset tends to avoid challenges while a growth mindset embraces them. Obstacles - A fixed mindset tends to give up easily while a growth mindset tends to persist, regardless of any setbacks. Effort - A fixed mindset perceives effort as something pointless while a growth mindset perceives effort as a way to achieve mastery Criticism - A fixed mindset tends to ignore any feedback that is negative while a growth mindset tries to learn from criticism received Success of others - A fixed mindset feels threatened by the success of others while a growth mindset gets inspired and tries to

Individuals fail in life due to their inability to be true to their emotions. According

Our emotions in many cases affect our perception of events as well as the actions that we take ourselves by permeating our way of thinking, and therefore affecting each thing that we do in that moment. In particular, emotions about the perception of ourselves have been shown to have both the ability to positively and negatively affect our actions and performances in life. This is what can be

To fail is to succeed. Most people have had failure in their life from minor upsets to major problems, such as your favorite football team losing to getting rejected from a college. A fixed mindset would take that as a problem of their team losing, while the growth mindset would see that as an opportunity to put in new players and fresh faces. A fixed mindset would see being rejected from a college as a missed opportunity and they will never get accepted to any college, while a growth mindset could see that as an obstacle and apply to a college that they would never have thought of. For years I had a fixed mindset on math; I failed algebra 1 twice and algebra 2 once. I didn’t like math because I thought it wasn’t worth my time and I would

Debbie Millman once said, "If you imagine less, less will be what you undoubtedly deserve". When you doubt yourself, you have already convinced yourself that you will fail. The problem with this "fixed mindset" is that when things get difficult, kids who have been praised for performing smart, become insecure. They will believe that because they do not know the answer, they are not smart. This causes them to run away from challenges and fail to apply themselves. A person's attitude towards their level of intelligence determines their potential growth. Having a fixed mindset inhibits your intellectual growth, though believing intelligence is a potential, you are focused and motivated to apply yourself to difficult tasks in order to grow.

For example, I attend college and I have to write this essay, struggling to get ideas out of my head. I always tell my parents that school is difficult and I want to quit college. They tell me this isn’t the right way to think of college, of course it will be tough, but it takes you to a better future. Without the knowledge of positive thinking, there would be so much negativity and people struggling to find definite answers to their own questions and concerns.

An article written by Barbara Enhrenreich – “The Power of Negative Thinking” was published in New York Times in September 2008, a hard time otherwise known economic collapse of the World. Enhrenreich writes that greed and speculation are the two phenomenon responsible for the crisis. Enhrenreich defines positive thinking at a time as a “delusional optimism”, effect of which was over exaggerated and overvalued, “Positive thinking is endemic to academic culture – from weight loss programs to cancer support groups – and in the last two decades it has put down deep roots in the corporate world as well.” (Enhrenreich 270) Most importantly, Enhrenreich claims that Americans were not “deluded optimists” in the past. Visualizing success in her opinion became the guiding tool of a time. As summarized by Peter Theil in his book Zero to One, Americans were in a state of definite optimism up to 1980. Later, it has turned into indefinite optimism where

ailure is scary for many people. By changing your fixed mindset to growth mindset we can reduce the fear of failure by beginning to see it more as an opportunity to learn and grow. Everybody makes mistakes but the real question is how do you respond and recover. Approaching challenging situations with a growth mindset makes all the difference. Criticism plays a huge role in the mind of the fixed mindset. Ever since you were small, someone has been telling you what you can't do. Your mother told you that you couldn't eat dessert until you finished dinner, your father told you that you couldn't sit too close to the TV, and your teachers told you that you couldn't run in the hallway. During life, there will be hundreds of people who not only tell

(Tracy, 2003, pp. 18,19) ” Positive thought are life echancing.They empower you and make you feel stronger and more confident while negative thought bring about the opposite.They disempower you and make you feel weaker”.Now,you can see,your mind is extraordinarily powerful because it is the main control of how you manage yourself. (Peale, 2003)Willian James said”The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind”.Its can make you feel happy or sad.Its is your life,You can choose to have a happy life or sad life.If you choose to have a

So, when a problem or negative feeling/event occurs in your life follow the pattern: Can you control it? If not, stop thinking about it and if yes, focus on the solution.