Personal Narrative: Why I Embrace Challenges

I believe that I have a growth mindset and a little bit of a fixed mindset for many reasons. I sometimes embrace challenges, for example whenever I’m doing math and see a “challenging” problem, I like to try to solve it on my own without the help of anyone, but that’s not always the case with me. I like to procrastinate a lot, especially when I know the assignment I’m doing isn’t going to be due for a couple of more days. I usually avoid challenges when I think negatively about the challenge. For example tests, for me studying is a challenge that I like to avoid, because I feel like it doesn’t work for me. So, I take the easy way out and I decide not to study at all, which causes me a bigger challenge for me whenever I take my tests, stress, anxiety, and fear. I usually
Sometimes I’ll take criticism as a learning guide, but sometimes I’m too prideful to take in consideration some “harsh,” yet true criticism. For example if a teacher tells me that my writing was a little bit dull and I needed a couple of corrections, I’d take that criticism into consideration. But, if a teacher “harshly criticizes” something that took me a long time to do and I actually put my heart into it, I would get mad and think that the teacher doesn’t know what they’re talking about, because I feel like my work was done right. I eventually learn from criticism one way or another. But, I’ve learned, sadly the hard way, that the teachers who give you the “harshest criticism” are the ones who actually want to see excel in their class or future, and their the ones who tend to care about your well-being, and know you can do