You can grow your intelligence

The most important thing I learned about the growth mindset is that you can get smarter by practicing. You're not born with a certain level of intelligence that will limit you for the rest of your life, instead, you can train yourself to become better at anything. To get better, you have to try challenging new things. Your brain isn made up of neurons, nerve cells that communicate with each other allowing you to think. When you learn new things, your neurons connect and get stronger. For example, when you first learn to ride a bike, it might be hard at first, but when you've finally learned how to do it you make new connections in your brain, and riding a bike becomes something easy. Knowing that you can always get better is important in order to stay motivated when trying to learn new things.

If you are taking on a new challenge and you begin feeling like it's too difficult and you can't do it, there are a few things you can do. You should stay motivated and keep trying. To do this, you can tell yourself that you can't do it yet. That will help you keep the focus on making progress instead of thinking that you're too dumb to do it. Then what? Then, you should start trying again. Don't be afraid to make mistakes, because mistakes can actually help you. If you stop to reflect on your mistakes, you can learn a lot of things. Examine why you made that mistake and you won't have to do it again. Then you will keep getting better until you reach your goal. You can call this situation "the dip". That is, when you get and start feeling down because you can't do it. In order to climb out of the dip you need to stay motivated, keep trying and reflect on your mistakes until you can finally finish your project.