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Growth Mindset: The surprising habits of original thinkers

A meme about Growth Mindset, taken from Here.
For this extra credit I watched a video, "
The surprising habits of original thinkers | Adam Grant", a 15 minuter ted talk video about original thinkers. I found this video very interesting as it explains how original thinkers are usually procrastinators because it gives them time to think and allows for more creativity.

I actually have an interesting story of this myself: Back in first year near the end of semester 1, we got 3-4 assignments and all were due in December. I decided to do my digital photography earlier then all the others and left my visual creativity assignment to the last minute. I had my photo essay done before a week before it was due, while I was still drawing and colouring my visual creativity the day it was due !

I thought I would 100% pass digital photography and was hoping that I barely pass visual creativity. I was so surprised that I pass digital photography with a C and got a B+ in Visual creativity!

It's kind of interesting that Martin Luther is just as bad as procrastinating as me!

I also think it's interesting that failure rate of first thinkers and improvers ! Reminds me of "Shenmue" which was the first open world game but it didn't preform great but "Grand Theft Auto 3", which took "Shenmue" open world idea, improve on it and sold millions of copies !

Oh and that research about Firefox and Chrome users are more creative, was cool, HAHA I'm more creative then you ! HAHAHa. The bit about creative progress hits closes as I always doubt my ideas, I changed my idea for visual design fundamental 3 times, so doubt is my best friend, yay.

The bit about failing hits close to home, I'm afraid of failing but also still fail time and time again. I still keep going because how else I'm gonna know ?

Overall I found this video super interesting and would recommend watching it.

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