Growth Mindset: Memes!

(Meme is from the Growth Mindset blog)

As Professor Gibbs says, this saying is actually part of a larger quote that's worth reading (sourced from here):

The good life is lived best by those with gardens — a truth that was already a gnarled old vine in ancient Rome, but a sturdy one that still bears fruit. I don’t mean one must garden qua garden… I mean rather the moral equivalent of a garden — the virtual garden. I posit that life is better when you possess a sustaining practice that holds your desire, demands your attention, and requires effort; a plot of ground that gratifies the wish to labor and create — and, by so doing, to rule over an imagined world of your own.

It hasn't been an easy past week at all for me, and this weekend has been just as challenging. This quote reminded me that it's entirely up to me what I choose to focus on and where I put my time and energy--you really do have to "live in your own little world" sometimes in order to not let life get to you...remembering this isn't the easiest, though!