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Growth Mindset

MIT students share how shifting to a growth mindset has helped them see their struggle as a learning experience and feel less like an impostor.

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Daniel: Growth Mindset

Daniel offers an analogy for different approaches to making progress.

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Katie: Growth Mindset

Katie realizes that her reaction to the initial poor grade that she received in class was to exert more effort. Instead of dropping the class, she persevered. She hypothesizes that she learned more deeply because of the challenge than if she had been able to coast easily through the coursework.

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Jennifer: Growth Mindset

Jennifer shares how shifting to a growth mindset helped her see challenges as learning opportunities and feel less like an impostor.

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