Misunderstood Learning In High School

Trying to be an honor student was everybody's goal in high school. Who didn't want to be the smartest kid in class? I did ;instead, i went a different route. In retrospect, my senior year I can say I thought as myself as a " KNOW IT ALL." I misunderstood learning. Theres a saying by Donald Rumsfeld from the book Make it Stick "There are known knowns, there are things we know that we know. There are known unknowns;that is to say there are things that we now knew we don't know. But there are also unknown- there are things we do not know we don't know." In other words there are things that we think we might know but we really don't their just your beliefs. Number one way to misunderstood learning is assuming you know something, when you're still questioning if you know it. In my past I misunderstood learning during my senior year of high school. I approached my senior year of high school with an overconfident/attitude. Thinking I didn't have to ask for help if i needed it, being arrogant, cocky, and not motivating myself. Having an overconfident/attitude didn't get me nowhere, just made me miss out on potential opportunities. I failed to
Even though I passed 12th grade, i should had payed more attention. I knew i could've did better because i knew i had it in me. I should have got over the cockiness attitude, communicated better and just paid more attention because at the end it would have paid off. Misunderstood learning is nobody fault I believe if you want a bright future, and want to be successful its all about putting the work in. As Carol Dweck would say my senior year i was a fixed minded a person, that believes in their basic qualities, like their intelligence or talent, are simply fixed traits. They spend their time documenting their intelligence or talent instead of developing them. They also believe that talent alone creates success without