The Gritty HERO's Growth Mindset deck is for students and learners building confidence, persistence and belief in their capacity to improve, for anyone working toward a long-term goal such as a degree, and for the parent or teacher who wants to grow these resources in young people.
It brings together six psychological resources: Hope, Efficacy, Resilience, Optimism, Grit and a Growth Mindset. Together they form what is called psychological capital, and they are not fixed traits you are born with. They can be developed and strengthened through practice, and each one strengthens the others.
Each card holds one question from the six. Hope cards build waypower and willpower, asking what alternative routes could take you to your goal. Optimism cards help you see a setback as temporary and specific, asking what is temporary and specific about this one. Grit cards ask how you keep your commitment when progress feels slow, and Growth Mindset cards ask what you could learn in order to improve. Like every FlourishTalk deck it is made for you, with your name on every card, and arrives by email as a print-ready PDF to print on cardstock and an eBook for a phone, tablet or computer.
I suggest you begin with Hope and a goal from your own studies, and draw one card at a time with a friend or in a journal. If you want to go further, the course Grow a Gritty HERO's Mindset on the student pathway works with the same resources and gives you tools to practise each one on your own life.
Dr Alten du PlessisFounder, LearnSmart4Life