Mindset Analysis

Over the course of the creation of my documentary, I learned that I don’t have a completely fixed or growth mindset, but rather a blend of both. When I came across a problem, which happened multiple times throughout these two months, I didn’t stop and mope about it, but nor did I persevere through. As an alternative, my mind took an alternative route; finding loopholes around my issues, almost dodging every roadblock that came my way. For example, early on into this project, when searching for an editing software, I took sacrifices after learning that the availability of quality editing systems on a Chromebook laptop were quite limited, determined that instead of actually resolving this issue, would do most of the editing at home on my own personal time. I wouldn’t say that I got past any of my problems, but I always managed to find a way around them. My mind wasn’t fixed on the issues or growing past them, but instead avoiding them to the best of its ability. When I did happen to go through a class period not stumbling across any roadblocks, I was very productive and was able to accomplish much more. In the beginning of the editing process in early November, I was very bad at editing and had no idea what I was doing, which inevitably resulted in me making mistakes that I didn’t no how to fix. However, as time progressed, my editing ability grew stronger, and I was able to edit the second half of my documentary much faster without facing much problems and difficulty. Editing this second half of my documentary was the biggest success for me for this Genius Hour project, as it is noticeably stronger than the first half, which I made when I had no idea what I was doing.