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What is the perfect studying mindset? How can a growth mindset<\/a> improve your education?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In The Only Study Guide You’ll Ever Need<\/em>, Jade Bowler explains to perform well in school, your first step is to prioritize having a healthy mindset. She discusses how to manage your mindset so a fear of failure<\/a>, lack of motivation, and procrastination don’t sabotage your success.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let’s look at how to achieve<\/a> this studying mindset with Bowler’s tips.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

Manage Your Mindset<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The health of your mindset is determined by how positively you think, feel, and act. A healthy studying mindset is crucial to academic success because unhealthy<\/em> mindsets result in thoughts, feelings, and behaviors that hinder success. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

In Bowler’s experience, <\/strong>the most common symptom of a negative mindset<\/a> is the fear of failure<\/em>, which often leads to lack of motivation<\/em> and procrastination<\/em>. <\/strong>She explains that <\/strong>the fear of failure <\/em>makes students either overwork themselves in the pursuit of perfection or avoid academic work altogether due to the anxiety it causes. Fear of failure<\/em> often leads to a lack of motivation:<\/em><\/strong> students having no desire to study<\/strong>, either because they\u2019re uninterested in or have given up on academic success. A lack of motivation usually stems from either a student\u2019s negative beliefs about their ability to succeed or from a genuine lack of interest in the academic material. A lack of motivation <\/em>usually leads to procrastination\u2014<\/em><\/strong>when students ignore or delay their work.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bowler makes a few recommendations to help students develop a healthy mindset, overcome fear<\/a> of failure, boost motivation, and avoid procrastination<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recommendation #1: Develop a Growth Mindset<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Bowler explains that many students fall victim to a fear of failure, poor motivation, and procrastination because they have a <\/strong>fixed mindset<\/a><\/em><\/strong>\u2014<\/em>they believe that their current abilities and limitations are unchangeable. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Students with a fixed mindset who struggle in school<\/em> are the most likely to lack motivation and procrastinate. This is because they have the fixed-mindset belief that nothing will improve their academic abilities, so there\u2019s no point in wasting time studying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Bowler argues that to overcome a fixed mindset, <\/strong>students should instead adopt a growth mindset<\/em>\u2014the belief that you can learn anything and overcome any obstacle through hard work.<\/strong> This will help students to understand that their time and effort will<\/em> pay off. For example, if someone with a growth mindset<\/em> has a difficult exam, they\u2019ll focus on their potential to ace it even though it might take hard work. Instead of avoiding the work, they\u2019ll identify the areas they\u2019re struggling in and determine the best study techniques<\/a> to improve their knowledge. (We\u2019ll talk more about effective study techniques<\/a> in Part 2 of this guide.) This student is more likely to pass the exam due to their growth mindset.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How to Achieve a Growth Mindset<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Carol S. Dweck agrees with Bowler that you should adopt a growth mindset by believing that you can achieve anything, identifying the steps necessary to grow, and taking action. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, Dweck elaborates that before putting your growth mindset into action, you should first take the following steps to address your fixed mindset<\/em> too:<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

  1. Accept that you have a fixed mindset<\/strong>. This will help you acknowledge fixed beliefs when they crop up, combat them, and take a productive course of action.<\/li>
  2. Identify your triggers.<\/strong> Understand which situations are likely to prompt your fixed beliefs so you can be prepared to combat them. <\/li>
  3. Personify and name your fixed mindset<\/strong>. Seeing your fixed mindset as another person can help distance you from it when it crops up.<\/li><\/ol>\n\n\n\n

    Have a conversation with your fixed mindset. <\/strong>Talk this \u201cperson\u201d out of their fixed beliefs\u2014this will help you think more rationally.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Recommendation #2: Identify Your End Goals and Make School Interesting<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

    Bowler explains that many students lack motivation and end up procrastinating or avoiding work<\/a> because they don\u2019t see the value in academic work. To fix this, <\/strong>Bowler recommends that students identify their end goals\u2014what they want to do <\/strong>after<\/em><\/strong> they graduate\u2014and make school interesting by connecting topics they\u2019re learning about to these goals.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

    (Shortform note: Psychologists explain that finding interest in schoolwork helps us perform better and curb bad habits because interest is both an affective <\/em>and cognitive <\/em>state<\/a>\u2014it impacts your mood <\/em>and mind, <\/em>respectively. The affective state makes us more energized and excited about learning in the long term. The cognitive state makes us more focused and increases our ability to learn because we process information more efficiently and employ more effective learning strategies<\/a>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    To identify your end goal, Bowler recommends focusing on your values and passions<\/strong>, not<\/em><\/strong> on making money.<\/strong> For example, imagine that your primary values in life are traveling and experiencing new things, and you\u2019re passionate about writing. In this case, your end goal might be to live nomadically and work as a journalist or online as a writer so you can live anywhere. This might not pay as much as a career in, say, finance\u2014but it\u2019ll make you happy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Then, you can relate school topics to this end goal. For example, maybe you want to go to a prestigious journalism university that requires a high overall GPA from its applicants. This might motivate you to work harder in subjects that you\u2019re not particularly interested in to keep your grades up. Or, if you\u2019re not interested in higher education, consider how the topics you\u2019re learning about can be beneficial while traveling. For instance, learning about ocean tides might come in handy one day when you sail the Indian Ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

    How to Identify Passions, Values, and Goals That Will <\/strong>Truly<\/em><\/strong> Inspire Your School Work<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

    While Bowler recommends identifying end goals to inspire your school work by focusing on your values and passions rather than money, Joshua Fields Millburn<\/a> and Ryan Nicodemus<\/a> suggest that doing this might be harder than it sounds. In Minimalism<\/em><\/a>, <\/em>they explain that when we try to identify passions and values while caught in a daily grind like school and studying, we\u2019re often tied down by \u201canchors\u201d that disrupt our ability to identify what\u2019s truly<\/em> important to us<\/a>. This can cause us to create goals based on things we mistakenly think<\/em> we\u2019re passionate about, making us feel more lost and less motivated in the end. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

    Like Bowler, they explain that a concern for money<\/em> is one of the anchors you must let go of to accurately identify your passions. However, they identify multiple other influential anchors, like the fear of losing or changing your identity, <\/em>concern over your social status<\/em>, and fear of the unknown (uncertainty<\/em>)<\/a>. Once you\u2019re able to let go of these anchors, you\u2019ll be able to identify passions that will truly<\/em> inspire your goals and school work in the long term.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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