Building Resilience Through a Growth Mindset

School, at whatever level – Primary, Secondary, University, is a place where we constantly compare ourselves to others. We compare our grades, our reading levels and scores in maths and spellings. We compare our sporting ability, our artistic talents. As we get older, we compare the way we dress, who we ‘hang out with’ and our popularity within a class. A ‘Growth mindset’ is having the belief that you can change if you apply yourself to a task. It is the belief that people are not set in concrete, that labels don’t define them and that they can achieve what they set their minds to.