While learning about a growth mindset, it reminded me of Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert. She mostly talks about it from a writer's perspective, but there is even a section in the book where she explains that anyone can be creative, but some just tell themselves that they can't (fixed mindset). They talk themselves out of it. I'm going to put some of the quotes from the book here and I've also included two ted talks with Elizabeth, one where she talks about getting over the fear of failure and the second to find that elusive creative genius.
That just doing things to grow ourselves and the joy and the pursuit of what makes us happy. She touches on mental health and psychology, to be able to keep going regardless of failure (or the pressure to be perfect), and to keep putting in the effort. I believe that as teachers we can use these tools and the growth mindset that she talks about in her book to help our students be brave and not let fear stop them. She mentions that some people don't have a passion, she suggests then, to follow what you are curious about. We can guide our students (and ourselves) to follow our curiosity and to be brave and see where it takes us.
"Living a life that is driven more strongly by curiosity than by fear."
"What do you love doing so much that the words failure and success essentially become irrelevant?"
"It's a simple and generous rule of life that whatever you practice, you will improve at."
"It might have been done before, but it hasn't been done by you!"
"Own your disappointment, acknowledge it for what it is, and move on."
"Do whatever brings you to life, then. Follow your own fascinations, obsessions, and compulsions. Trust them. Create whatever causes a revolution in your heart."
"You can measure your worth by your dedication to your path, not by your successes or failures."
"It seems to me that the less I fight my fear, the less it fights back. If I can relax, fear relaxes, too."
Success Failure and the Drive to keep Creating
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_waBFUg_oT8
Elusive Creative Genius
Nicole@NU
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