Halfway Reflection

1. Tenacious Competency
• I released inhibitions about approaching people and removed the fear of rejection and failure notion from my mindset.
• I began to hang out at Starbucks more frequently to gauge when more of my target customers visited this establishment.
• I developed a schedule to complete the assignments. I constantly read the books required for the reading assignments to finish that portion of the class ahead of time. This enabled me more time to focus on conducting interviews for the weekly assignments. I usually comment on Blog posts early in the week, complete written tasks (such as this one) early to mid-week, and conducted interviews towards the end of the week to gain insight from the lectures.
2. Tenacious Attitude
• I never felt like giving up as I already had a tenacious mindset. From the start of my enrollment, I have set a goal for myself to not drop any class nor not complete any assignment. Once I'm in I'm all in.
• There was some trepidation early on as I did not feel I was very good at approaching people and asking for interviews. I removed that fear from my mentality fairly early on and kept telling myself I want an A and I will do my best to get an A in this class and every other class.
• I think not graduating from college 15 years ago contributed the most to my current attitude. I know the mistakes I made then, how I dropped classes that I felt were too difficult without really trying and how that catapulted to dropping out entirely. Learning from those mistakes has helped me the most. Unfortunately I probably can not convey this properly to someone who is in school for the first time fresh out of high school as I would not have listened to myself or anyone else sharing their experience 15 years ago. Sometimes experience can not be expressed to people with inexperience conjoined with an unwillingness to listen.
3. Tips
• Believe in yourself. It may seem overwhelming and scary at first but with time, patience and practice confidence can be developed and cultivated.
• Read Mindset: The New Psychology of Success as early as possible as it talks about the fixed vs. growth mindset. That will bring self-awareness to the student as to what type of mindset they currently have and if they feel it is a good or bad thing. If it's bad they will have time to change it which would be beneficial in this class. 
• For the instructors, I would suggest letting the students write their first reading reflection on either a biography/autobiography or psychological/philosophical book. This will allow them more latitude and opportunity to read a book that would inspire a positive, thought-provoking mindset which could enable them to strive forward in the course and earn a better grade.
• Have fun. It's like a roller coaster. Scary on the way up and then becomes exhilarating later on. Staying focused, determined and disciplined are critical and necessary for this and any course so you may as well have fun while you are doing it.

Down 3-1, the Cleveland Cavaliers became the first team ever to overcome this deficit to win the NBA Championship.
If that is not tenacity, I do not know what is.

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