Multimedia Development

 This week I watched a TED talk from Adam Grant about original thinkers, he talks all about students he has had in life that he recognized as 'Originals'. He says these originals not only have ideas but they act on these ideas and drive change in the world. He talks about his college life and how he rushed in and done everything early, he even submitted his final thesis four months early. Years later he had a student that told him they have their most creative ideas when they are procrastinating, this led him to look into and study the positives of procrastination. He found that the most creative people are moderate procrastinators, they operate in a sweet spot between early workers and procrastinators. If you learn of a task you have to complete and then you start procrastinating, the task will incubate in your mind and you have time to think outside the box before finishing the task. Originals will start their tasks fast but finish them slow, if you start an essay or assignme...

 I actually had never heard of Carol Dweck or her research on growth mindset before she was introduced in this module, I have found it really interesting. Throughout my school life I think I've been on the border of growth and fixed mindsets, I plan to implement some of her work into my day to day life in hope to bring myself fully into a growth mindset.  According to Carol a growth mindset is attributed by things like a hunger to learn, embracing challenges as well as persistence in setbacks. People with a growth mindset believe in improvement and see hard work as the key to success and intelligence, they engage in their problems and see their failures as opportunities to learn and improve. On the other hand, there is a fixed mindset in which people seem to think you are either good at something or you are not and there's no way of changing that. People with this mindset seem to shy away from challenges out of fear of failure or humiliation as well as ignoring or taking offen...