In looking over the articles for the assignment, a few stood out to me. One of them was the graph for the Learning Process.
From the article
As we can see, learning is a continuous process, not a simple “A to B” trip. In our brains, as I’ve learned in my psychology classes, information is constantly being edited and refined with new information (or even with processing it after the fact). This is why your memory of an event may change over time, or, in relation to the current topic, how you view something may change over time.
Another article that I liked was the essay by John Cleese, titled “The Importance of Mistakes.” Cleese discusses how it’s important to recognize that, as long as someone reaches the end goal in the right amount of time, then the amount of mistakes they make along the way shouldn’t matter. Little mistakes are easily correctable, and having these small mistakes happen means that the goal is reached in the end. This rang a bell for me, since I’m encountering something similar at work. I was moved to start working in the accounting office, and my philosophy has become, “As long as I don’t make the same mistake twice, then I’m doing okay.” There’s a lot that goes into working in the office, and I’m the only one in there during my shift. Most of the time I end up texting one of my coworkers with a question, but I feel that as long as I don’t make the same mistake twice, then that means I am learning, and will eventually get to the point where I can reach the end goals without any help.
This is something that can apply to life in general too. As long as I keep learning from my mistakes and avoid repeating them, then my end goal will be reached in the end.
But this is also me after 15 minutes of homework (Source: Growth Mindset Blog)
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