Original: In both Dweck’s TED Talk and in Lukianoff and Haidt’s article they talk about the issue of not being able to handle hard conversations and problems that are common in life. In Dweck’s Talk she talks about what goes through a person’s head when they are faced with a problem and they have a fixed-mindset. When she is showing the audience the difference in the two types of mindsets, she says “On the left, you see the fixed-mindset students. There’s hardly any activity. They run from the error. They don’t engage with it” (around 01:51). What she is saying here is that students with this type of mindset don’t engage with a problem, she is showing real evidence taken from scientists and showing exactly what the difference is between the two students. They do not see the issue as a puzzle and aren’t trying to solve it. They are stuck in their ways and are not able to get past what they think they know. Similarly in Lukianoff and Haidt’s article they talk about people being very sheltered and not having hard conversations about things that are important in our lives. Lukianoff and Hadit talk about the hard conversations that we need to have in our life, about topics that are sensitive but also very crucial to parts of our history. “Attempts to shield students from words, ideas, and people that might cause them emotional discomfort are bad for the students. They are bad for the workplace, which will be mired in unending litigation if student expectations of safety are carried forward” (Paragraph 58) this is a quote from the text, and they are talking about how these people are not the kind of people that society wants. They want someone who will see a problem and effectively address the issue and find ways toward a solution. The people that can have these hard conversations and are able to keep themselves composed, even if they don’t like the way the conversation is going and not say that this is triggering them, are the ones that are going to go far in life. Because these people can see past their own selfishness and be able to be a contributing member of society. In both the TED Talk and “The Coddling” article, we see examples of students who have a fixed mindset. These students do not take the time to think outside of the box, and stop and realize that they are not the only ones who live in this world. Because this mindset that they have immersed themselves in is going to create more issues for them in the future if they don’t try and grow their knowledge.
Revised: We get stuck in this repeating cycle of running away. Everyone is guilty of this pattern when faced with difficulty, we just tend to run away when it gets hard. And if we can’t handle these hard things we just collapse, which will lead to nothing ever changing. It’s a mindset that we believe we have no control over, but actually we do. In Dweck’s Talk she talks about what goes through a person’s head when they are faced with a problem and they have a fixed-mindset. When she is showing the audience the difference in the two types of mindsets, she says “On the left, you see the fixed-mindset students. There’s hardly any activity. They run from the error. They don’t engage with it” (around 01:51). What she is saying here is that students with this type of mindset don’t engage with a problem, she is showing real evidence taken from scientists and showing exactly what the difference is between the two students. They do not see the issue as a puzzle and aren’t trying to solve it. They are stuck in their ways and are not able to get past what they think they know, they just continue to run away from the issues at hand. Similarly in Lukianoff and Haidt’s article, they talk about people being very sheltered and not having hard conversations about things that are important in our lives. Lukianoff and Hadit talk about the hard conversations that we need to have in our life, about topics that are sensitive but also very crucial to parts of our history. “Attempts to shield students from words, ideas, and people that might cause them emotional discomfort are bad for the students. They are bad for the workplace, which will be mired in unending litigation if student expectations of safety are carried forward” (Paragraph 58) this is a quote from the text, and it is talking about how these people, the ones that run away from the problem, are not the kind of people that society wants. They want someone who will see a problem and effectively address the issue and find ways toward a solution. The people that can have these hard conversations and are able to keep themselves composed, even if they don’t like the way the conversation is going and not say that this is triggering them, are the ones that are going to go far in life. Because these people can see past their own selfishness and be able to be a contributing member of society. In both the TED Talk and “The Coddling” article, we see examples of students who have a fixed mindset. These students do not take the time to think outside of the box, and stop and realize that they are not the only ones who live in this world. Because this mindset that they have immersed themselves in is going to create more issues for them in the future if they don’t try and grow their knowledge, and stop running from the difficulties that life throws at us.
Original: Carol Dweck is a researcher taking the idea of expanding knowledge to a new level. She believes in two different types of mindsets in students: a Fixed Mindset and a Growth Mindset. A Fixed Mindset is when you are faced with a problem you run away from it and are unable to solve it. These are students who do not understand a way to think at a deeper and higher level. While a Growth Mindset is a student who when you are faced with the same problem see a way to solve the problem. They think at a different level and see the problem as a puzzle to solve. Dweck did research on it and showed her audience during her TED Talk, “I wanted to see how children coped with challenge and difficulty, so I gave 10-year-olds problems that were slightly too hard for them. Some of them reacted in a shockingly positive way. They said things like, “I love a challenge,” or, “You know, I was hoping this would be informative.” They understood that their abilities could be developed. They had what I call a growth mindset. But other students felt it was tragic, catastrophic. From their more fixed mindset perspective, their intelligence had been up for judgment, and they failed. Instead of luxuriating in the power of yet, they were gripped in the tyranny of now” (Around 00:35). She is showing her audience what happens to the students when she approaches them with an issue. She notes that the fixed mindset students were upset with the challenge and felt as if they had failed but the ones that she believed had a growth mindset or could develop that mindset were very happy with the challenge and accepted it with a new way of thinking.The idea of her TED Talk is to show the difference and then give ways to see the change in the fixed mindset students and have them become a student with a growth mindset. She wants educators to find ways to engage with all the students and encourage this higher level of thinking. Dweck says “First of all, we can praise wisely, not praising intelligence or talent. That has failed. Don’t do that anymore. But praising the process that kids engage in, their effort, their strategies, their focus, their perseverance, their improvement. This process of praise creates kids who are hardy and resilient” (Around 04:00), which is a way for educators to encourage this type of thinking. She wants the education system to create students who are able to think outside the box and have a more creative way to solve problems they are faced with.
Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt are authors of The Atlantic article called “The Coddling”, which has to do with the coddling of the education system and creating a sheltered environment for students. Their beliefs are that students are being sheltered from what is happening in the outside world due to trigger warnings in colleges. They explain them as, “Trigger warnings are alerts that professors are expected to issue if something in a course might cause a strong emotional response” (Paragraph 2) which is just the first steps in creating this sheltered and censored environment. Lukianoff and Haidt believe that the environment that colleges, and most of the education system in general, are creating is becoming harmful to the student and their future in the society. “Classroom discussions are safe places to be exposed to incidental reminders of trauma (such as the word violate). A discussion of violence is unlikely to be followed by actual violence, so it is a good way to help students change the associations that are causing them discomfort. And they’d better get their habituation done in college, because the world beyond college will be far less willing to accommodate requests for trigger warnings and opt-outs” (Paragraph 38) is a quote directly from their text showing that they believe that classrooms should be a safe place to have discussions and prepare students for the types of conversations they will hear and or face in the real world. Lukianoff and Haidt want students to be able to be safe while still talking about things that matter.
Revised: Carol Dweck is an education researcher taking the idea of expanding knowledge to a new level. She believes in two different types of mindsets in students: a Fixed Mindset and a Growth Mindset. A Fixed Mindset is when you are faced with a problem you run away from it and are unable to solve it. These are students who do not understand a way to think at a deeper and higher level. While a Growth Mindset is a student who when you are faced with the same problem see a way to solve the problem. They think at a different level and see the problem as a puzzle to solve. The idea of her TED Talk is to show the difference between these mindsets and then give ways to see the change in the fixed mindset students and have them start to gain a growth mindset. She wants educators to find ways to engage with all the students and encourage this higher level of thinking. She wants the education system to create students who are able to think outside the box and have a more creative way to solve problems they are faced with. Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt are authors of The Atlantic article called “The Coddling”, which has to do with the coddling of the education system and creating a sheltered environment for students. Their beliefs are that students are being sheltered from what is happening in the outside world due to trigger warnings in colleges. They explain them as, “Trigger warnings are alerts that professors are expected to issue if something in a course might cause a strong emotional response” (Paragraph 2) which is just the first steps in creating this sheltered and censored environment. Lukianoff and Haidt believe that the environment that colleges, and most of the education system in general, are creating is becoming harmful to the student and their future in the society. Dweck and Lukianoff and Haidt all have these ideas of mindsets and what they do to the developing mind. Whether it be running away from a problem like Dweck says or saying something triggers you like Lukainoff and Haidt say, they are both talking about mindset and how to overcome the fixed way of thinking.
