Readers’ Voice

Your mindset matters

Mindset means the beliefs people hold about themselves. This determines behavior, outlook, and mental attitude. People differ from each other because they think differently, act differently, and cope differently from each other. But why are some people smarter or more moral than others? Dr. Carol Susan Dweck, an American psychologist, in her most famous book ‘Mindset’ has described the two types of mindsets; fixed and growth. People with a growth mindset view intelligence, abilities, and talents as learnable and capable of improvement through effort. On the other hand, those with a fixed mindset view those same traits as inherently stable and unchangeable over time.
A fixed mindset believes that intelligence, talents, and personalities are fixed traits that cannot grow and these are static. So they believe, we are born with a certain level of ability or special skills and we are unable to improve our level of abilities over time. It leads to a desire to look smart and therefore a tendency to avoid challenges, give up easily, see efforts as fruitless or worse, ignore useful negative feedback, and feel threatened by the success of others. As a result, they may plateau early and achieve less than their full potential. That’s a deterministic view of the world. The fixed mindset is one of the main reasons behind people’s failure. For instance, a person with a fixed mindset believes that he is either good at something or not.
Whereas a person with a growth mindset believes that his most basic abilities can be developed through dedication and hard work. This view creates a love of learning and resilience that is essential for great accomplishment. It leads to a desire to learn and therefore a tendency to embrace challenges, endure obstacles, see efforts as a path to mastery, learn from criticism, finding lessons and inspiration in the success of others. As a result, he reaches ever higher-ups levels of achievement.
We must adopt a growth mindset if we want to be successful. Because life is full of challenges, failures, unexpected tragic events, and many more. Only those with growth mindsets can survive in all these situations.

Mohammad Usama Aamir
From Internet

Establish more technical schools

BRAC has a good number of primary schools completing 5 years primary schooling curriculum in four years. BRAC has also been replicating its model to other countries in the world.
Now, BRAC, the largest NGO in the world, has established a few secondary schools across the country particularly in the rural areas.
We ask BRAC as well as other NGOs to establish more Technical schools rather than general schools across the country and turn general schools into technical schools.

Mawduda Hasnin
Rajshahi