Being Successful

In recent discussions of the “Mindset” and “Think Differently”, a controversial issue has been raised. On one hand, Carol Dweck argues that working hard, challenging yourself and think positive, will help us succeed. On the other hand, Ken Robinson remind us that not all of us are great in academically, but are gifted in some other ways. My own view is that many people have different ways of approaching of how to become successful, whereas on the other hand, not everyone has the potential of becoming successful. I think that if we have the mindset of being positive, great personality, good aptitude and not taking anything for granted, we will succeed in life.
Carol Dweck claims that having a growth mindset of working hard, practice and training, we will manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgement and to become more smarter than we were before. She insisted that if we have the never ending curiosity, go the extra miles of trying and trying, we will succeed. She also mentioned that we have to believe within ourselves that we are able to do things, especially when we put all our effort, passion and motivation in becoming a successful person.
On the other hand, Ken Robinson describes in his essay that don’t take anything for granted and that not all of us are good in academically but are gifted in some other ways. Ken Robinson describes that Mick Fleetwood was and intelligent student but was doing poorly on his test scores. He was unhappy with school. He was suffering and he did not like it one bit. Until he left school and he was driven to his great passion of being a great drummer, it was a success for him. School was just not his thing. He was doing successful of being a musician. He believed within himself that he was not useless. I like both moral of the story. In Carol Dwecks writing, we learned that with the growth mindset of staying positive attitude, challenging, and always being curious with things in general, and put all your effort, we will succeed. As for Ken Robinson message was that don’t take things for granted in the first place, but we must challenge it, and never give up. We would be very surprised that not all of us are intelligent in academically, but we are gifted in some other ways.
I remembered a good friend of mine went to school at about nine years of age. She was an intelligent girl and still is. Throughout her whole school year from elementary to high school, she was always working hard to keep her grades. After graduating from school, we all thought that she will be one heck of a girl, if she goes to college to complete for her an associated degree. Coming to find out later, she never wanted to attend college. She had that fear that she wasn’t going to make it. After two years passed by, she still did not make it to college. She states that after twelve years of going to school, she was just with it and her mind was not set for it to. I think school was just not for her. Her passion was to stay home and being this good mother to her four precious children. School was just not her passion anymore.
My parents always motivated us in studying hard in school. They never wanted us to fail because it will only make them look bad to the community. They cared so much about their reputation that they did not want to look bad. They’ve always given us advice of thinking positively, always praying to God, if we did not know anything or wanted to do good on our school work. I think the more our parent’s pushed and to motivated us, the more eager we were in our studies.
Therefore so many of us always take things for granted that we should never take things for granted in the first place. We should always put great effort, with a positive attitude, and take challenges even if things get tough and never give up in order for us to succeed.