The last lesson of writing is thinking we were talking a lot about reflecting and learning how to use it. We started with a video, which was telling us several factors about the current situation with learning. In education is the only thing they measure your IQ. But what if it depends on much more than your ability to learn easy? This is where Grit comes in, it is sticking with your future, day in day out, for years and working really hard to make that a reality. But the thing is that talent does not make you grit, it isn’t even related to it. The lady of the video also mentioned the growth mindset: the ability to learn that is not fixed, it can change with your effort.

So how are you going to implement the growth-mindset into your life? We needed the think of 3 daily things that we could do. I came up with the following:

• You try to change things if your situation is not the place you want to be
• Accept the failure and try to evaluate on it.
• Keep going, looking back is going back as well.

After that we needed to discuss another question in groups of 3, it was about a joined issue and we needed to list 3 solutions. Or joined issue was Reading and Writing, and the thing is that it can be boring sometimes, so that’s why we came up with:

• Read something where your passion lies
• Read something that really really interests you
• Read in an environment where you very comfortable

So we moved on, to almost the end of the class and then the question came: How much of your potential are you using today? My answer was 20%. I think if I look were my passion lies, I can agree to the fact that I am not using it a lot on a daily basis. My passion mainly is drawing and of course this is a business program, so I think that is why. But that wasn’t all, after that we needed to write a plan consisting with 3 solutions to reach your full potential, I came up with the following 3:

• Try to do more with the passion
• Practice makes perfection, every single minute you are doing nothing, invest it.
• All good things come to those who wait

And that was the end of What’s in my Backpack. In the beginning I didn’t was too much interested in it, but as time passed by and we made personality tests, I got more and more involved. Some of my business personality characteristics are still visible for me, even in private life. But it’s a good thing, because now I can figure out how to get the maximum out of it.