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  Growth Mindset -American Psychologist, Carol S. Dweck Until today I had not yet heard of Carol Dweck but I have come across the terms Fixed and Growth mindsets. After watching a few videos on her work I believe that she's correct. The way Carol explains it, children who are new to the education system and are developing their minds and outlooks on life are very malleable and however they are encouraged, it will have a huge effect on them. I used to subconsciously see myself as a fixed mind and that people who are "naturally intelligent" are the ones who just do better and have an easier time improving. Until recently. I found a Philosophy book called "Plato not Prozac!" by Dr. Lou Marinoff, PH.D. In his book he briefly runs over the history of philosophy, the fundamentals, some examples of philosophical counselling and philosophical disposition.  Philosophical Disposition is your philosophical outlook on any matter. It's how you position yourself to take o...

Introduction Post   Hey, how are you? My name is Adam and welcome to my blog. This post will be focused around introducing myself so you get to know a little bit more about me! Me and some of my friends, sometime last year Early Life First off, my name is Adam Patrick Anthony Finn. I was born in the Coombe on March 5th, 2000. My Dad tried to name me Patrick after himself and my Grandad which would have made me Patrick Finn III but my Mam disagreed and I'm kind of grateful for that. Anyway, I grew up around a lot of family as we didn't have a lot back then. I would spend time at my Nana's while my parents worked and made enough money to move into our own house in Ardmore, Tallaght. (if you don't know where that is, it's right next to the lidls that got torn down during the Snowstorm in March 2018) After a while, my sister was born and we decided to move house on St. Patrick's Day 2006 and are now living in Lucan.  Hobbies & Music Taste Skipping ahead, I went ...

The Last of Us    The Last of Us is a game developed by Naughty Dog and published in 2013. It starts in Austin, Texas and progresses abruptly to Boston, twenty years later after the outbreak of a deadly Cordyceps fungus which infects a host and turns them into cannibalistic "zombie". -Games Radar, The Last of Us HBO Series The Story The stor y follows Joel, a smuggler who lives in a quarantine zone run by martial law and patrolled by unforgiving militants who don't think twice if they find you're infected. The currency in this post-apocalyptic world is Ration cards which can be traded for supplies and food to survive within the QZ (Quarantine Zone).  To make a bit more than everyone else, Joel smuggles goods in and out of the QZ which is illegal and not to mention, incredibly dangerous. Beyond the walls of the QZ are cities lost and forgotten among their own rubble after countless bombing attempts to reduce numbers of infected. Ironically enough, these destroyed ci...