"Everyone should own this book." -Chip Heath & Dan Heath

I completely agree with the argument in Mindset about the two mindsets, growth mindset and a fixed mindset. Everyone has their own mindset some people do have a growth mindset and are open to new ideas and learning new things. I personally have a fixed mindset when it comes to school because I tell myself that I’m bad at math I always prepare to fail in that class. The other day I had a test and I said “oh why even really try because I’m just going to fail it anyways.” But I feel like that right there is just setting yourself up to fail. If you tell yourself that you’ll ace the test, you definitely have an open mind and you probably will ace that test. I think the 10,000 hours really relates to a growth mindset because people who have a growth mindset know that they’re going to have to work really hard to achieve something. And no matter how long or how hard they have to work that they’re going to be happy with the outcome. They’re responsible for how much time and effort they put into something knowing that you won’t really become a “master” at something until you really work those 10,000 hours. But, at the same time I think it also ties into a fixed mindset because you tell yourself, if you work 10,000 hours for something you will become a master at something. So once you put in the 10,000 hours and maybe at first you don’t succeed because you’ll give up because you told yourself “I only needed 10,000 hours, if I’m not good at it now I won’t be good at it at all.” Then you won’t put in maybe the extra couple hours that you needed and then you think you failed. I think mindsets also have a lot to do with motivation because if you’re not motivated to really work for something then you have a fixed mindset, and someone who has a growth mindset and strives for accomplishing things, they have a lot more motivation to get that accomplished.