Epics of India

(created using Adobe Spark) The best thing to spur growth is to take every opportunity as a chance to improve. Even if there's only a little growth, the accumulation from hundreds and thousands of used opportunities results in an end product that will be monumentally different from what was initially there. Take every moment, every situation, every circumstance - use them N.O.W. This is the final blog post. Thanks for following my journey through Epics of India, and with that:

(A+ grade, taken from here ) "Are we raising kids who are obsessed with getting A's?...Their biggest goal is getting the next A, or the next test score?" Wow, what a question. This is definitely prevalent in today's academic environment. Students are so occupied with results that they disregard any sort of problem-solving processes. This in turn, results in a very negative trend - a short term, "quick fix," pseudo-high from a burst of dopamine that is a reward for, for example, looking up an answer online. As they continue to do so, a vicious cycle appears - a quick and easy answer (and praise for it) sets up a "comfort zone," as Carol Dweck calls it , of which students are afraid to venture out of because of the endangerment to their ego. As much as I am ashamed to admit it, I am also guilty of this. There's a definite cultural shift in this age - where you have the world in the palm of your hand - from learning things to looking up th...