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Growth Mindset - Brains of Bubblegum
Jan 23, 2024
As I hinted in my last post, I have an 8-year-old daughter. Adda is bright, funny, and empathetic — all the things you want in a daughter. Hell, these are the things I like to think I am, but my imposter syndrome refuses to confirm this. The universe would probably go sideways if any of us were ever brave enough to admit our strengths. At the very least it would put our hyperconsumer economy into Mercury retrograde 365 days a year if people stopped buying shit they don’t need to fill the holes in ourselves that consumer advertising tells us are there. But I digress as I click “Buy Now” on Amazon.
Anyhow, Adda and I were enjoying our morning ritual of sipping our chocolate milk (her) and coffee (me, in case it needs clarifying who the adult is here) while catching up on the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. (Don’t judge. If you haven’t been following, get right with your god and tune in now. It is unreal.) One of the housewives was about to lose her shit on something very important when Adda turned to me with a serious, I’ve-been-waiting-to-bring-this-up look on her face.
“Mommy, do you know what a fixed mindset is?”
Record scratch. My Reality Von Tease drama would need to wait. #iykyk.
She started explaining what a growth mindset is and how it’s better than a fixed mindset. She told me that she wants her mind to be like bubble gum, where it expands as she learns new things. (This is what she learned in school, so I’ll take some ancillary points here for my good momming in school district selection.)
And I just thought, damn, kid, you’re more ahead of the game than most adults I know. I wish everyone had this type of insight at eight years old. Hell, I wish I had this type of insight at 38.
It begs the question, then: what would the world be like if we all had minds that expanded like bubble gum? What a world that would be. Although we probably wouldn't need the Real Housewives then, would we?
P.S. I realized after reading this that I sound like one of those parents on Facebook who post fake things that their kids say like:
But I pinky swear this happened.
As I hinted in my last post, I have an 8-year-old daughter. Adda is bright, funny, and empathetic — all the things you want in a daughter. Hell, these are the things I like to think I am, but my imposter syndrome refuses to confirm this. The universe would probably go sideways if any of us were ever brave enough to admit our strengths. At the very least it would put our hyperconsumer economy into Mercury retrograde 365 days a year if people stopped buying shit they don’t need to fill the holes in ourselves that consumer advertising tells us are there. But I digress as I click “Buy Now” on Amazon.
Anyhow, Adda and I were enjoying our morning ritual of sipping our chocolate milk (her) and coffee (me, in case it needs clarifying who the adult is here) while catching up on the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. (Don’t judge. If you haven’t been following, get right with your god and tune in now. It is unreal.) One of the housewives was about to lose her shit on something very important when Adda turned to me with a serious, I’ve-been-waiting-to-bring-this-up look on her face.
“Mommy, do you know what a fixed mindset is?”
Record scratch. My Reality Von Tease drama would need to wait. #iykyk.
She started explaining what a growth mindset is and how it’s better than a fixed mindset. She told me that she wants her mind to be like bubble gum, where it expands as she learns new things. (This is what she learned in school, so I’ll take some ancillary points here for my good momming in school district selection.)
And I just thought, damn, kid, you’re more ahead of the game than most adults I know. I wish everyone had this type of insight at eight years old. Hell, I wish I had this type of insight at 38.
It begs the question, then: what would the world be like if we all had minds that expanded like bubble gum? What a world that would be. Although we probably wouldn't need the Real Housewives then, would we?
P.S. I realized after reading this that I sound like one of those parents on Facebook who post fake things that their kids say like:
But I pinky swear this happened.
As I hinted in my last post, I have an 8-year-old daughter. Adda is bright, funny, and empathetic — all the things you want in a daughter. Hell, these are the things I like to think I am, but my imposter syndrome refuses to confirm this. The universe would probably go sideways if any of us were ever brave enough to admit our strengths. At the very least it would put our hyperconsumer economy into Mercury retrograde 365 days a year if people stopped buying shit they don’t need to fill the holes in ourselves that consumer advertising tells us are there. But I digress as I click “Buy Now” on Amazon.
Anyhow, Adda and I were enjoying our morning ritual of sipping our chocolate milk (her) and coffee (me, in case it needs clarifying who the adult is here) while catching up on the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. (Don’t judge. If you haven’t been following, get right with your god and tune in now. It is unreal.) One of the housewives was about to lose her shit on something very important when Adda turned to me with a serious, I’ve-been-waiting-to-bring-this-up look on her face.
“Mommy, do you know what a fixed mindset is?”
Record scratch. My Reality Von Tease drama would need to wait. #iykyk.
She started explaining what a growth mindset is and how it’s better than a fixed mindset. She told me that she wants her mind to be like bubble gum, where it expands as she learns new things. (This is what she learned in school, so I’ll take some ancillary points here for my good momming in school district selection.)
And I just thought, damn, kid, you’re more ahead of the game than most adults I know. I wish everyone had this type of insight at eight years old. Hell, I wish I had this type of insight at 38.
It begs the question, then: what would the world be like if we all had minds that expanded like bubble gum? What a world that would be. Although we probably wouldn't need the Real Housewives then, would we?
P.S. I realized after reading this that I sound like one of those parents on Facebook who post fake things that their kids say like:
But I pinky swear this happened.
As I hinted in my last post, I have an 8-year-old daughter. Adda is bright, funny, and empathetic — all the things you want in a daughter. Hell, these are the things I like to think I am, but my imposter syndrome refuses to confirm this. The universe would probably go sideways if any of us were ever brave enough to admit our strengths. At the very least it would put our hyperconsumer economy into Mercury retrograde 365 days a year if people stopped buying shit they don’t need to fill the holes in ourselves that consumer advertising tells us are there. But I digress as I click “Buy Now” on Amazon.
Anyhow, Adda and I were enjoying our morning ritual of sipping our chocolate milk (her) and coffee (me, in case it needs clarifying who the adult is here) while catching up on the Real Housewives of Salt Lake City. (Don’t judge. If you haven’t been following, get right with your god and tune in now. It is unreal.) One of the housewives was about to lose her shit on something very important when Adda turned to me with a serious, I’ve-been-waiting-to-bring-this-up look on her face.
“Mommy, do you know what a fixed mindset is?”
Record scratch. My Reality Von Tease drama would need to wait. #iykyk.
She started explaining what a growth mindset is and how it’s better than a fixed mindset. She told me that she wants her mind to be like bubble gum, where it expands as she learns new things. (This is what she learned in school, so I’ll take some ancillary points here for my good momming in school district selection.)
And I just thought, damn, kid, you’re more ahead of the game than most adults I know. I wish everyone had this type of insight at eight years old. Hell, I wish I had this type of insight at 38.
It begs the question, then: what would the world be like if we all had minds that expanded like bubble gum? What a world that would be. Although we probably wouldn't need the Real Housewives then, would we?
P.S. I realized after reading this that I sound like one of those parents on Facebook who post fake things that their kids say like:
But I pinky swear this happened.
