Today the Tawny Owls considered a very interesting question indeed:
Can you train yourself to become smart?
We looked at the difference between a Fixed and a Growth Mindset, after learning about some very hard Science behind the brain, and came up with the answer: YES!
Katie and Mojo told us that a fixed mindset means that if you fail, you don’t try again. You feel like you should give up because there is no point and that you will never get any better at it! That’s how Mojo felt, and he packed his bags and decided to leave school because he couldn’t do Maths.
But Katie introduced Mojo to the word ‘yet‘, and showed him that all he needed to do was train himself to be more positive!
We came up with tons of ideas to change our fixed mindsets into growth mindsets, and here they are:
Great work guys, this is amazing!
Here is the link to the episode we watched today, so that you can watch at home: