I have never heard of Carol Dweck, but a growth mindset is something I am familiar with. This kind of mindset is something that started for me with video games and has since extended to other parts of my life. I used to get really mad and frustrated when playing video games whenever I lost. I constantly blamed my teammates, and in some cases my self for the loss. Whenever I started to take video games more seriously and tried to improve I began watching profession players' streams. I would look at their gameplay and listen to the explanations they gave for why they did things a certain way. One day I was watching a stream and someone in the chat asked the player "How do I win more games?"
The player responded by saying, "First, stop caring about winning games. It does not matter if you win the games. What you should care about is getting better. That's what matters because if you get better you will win more games."
They went on to say that the best way to do this is to firstly not care about how everyone else in the game is doing. That you should only care about how you are impacting the game because, in the end, all you can control is yourself. That if you take a serious look at what you did, what you could have done differently, and what you could have done better you will improve.
This is a mindset that I have tried to adopt, not only in gaming but also in life. I still blame my self, but not in a self depreciating way, more of an "I could have done this better and will do better next time" kind of way. It is something that I am still working on and will likely still be working on for a long time. But I am okay with that because I will constantly be improving.
The player responded by saying, "First, stop caring about winning games. It does not matter if you win the games. What you should care about is getting better. That's what matters because if you get better you will win more games."
They went on to say that the best way to do this is to firstly not care about how everyone else in the game is doing. That you should only care about how you are impacting the game because, in the end, all you can control is yourself. That if you take a serious look at what you did, what you could have done differently, and what you could have done better you will improve.
This is a mindset that I have tried to adopt, not only in gaming but also in life. I still blame my self, but not in a self depreciating way, more of an "I could have done this better and will do better next time" kind of way. It is something that I am still working on and will likely still be working on for a long time. But I am okay with that because I will constantly be improving.
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