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LearnStorm Growth Mindset: Khan Academy's science content creator on learning strategies

Listen to Yuki Jung, Khan Academy's science content creator talk about some learning strategies she found helpful in school and in college. Yuki's story is part of the Growth Mindset Curriculum available with LearnStorm, a back-to-school program aimed at helping students start the school year strong. The growth mindset curriculum helps students take their own life experiences apply their learnings in the face of frustration, making mistakes and learning new things. For more information, visit https://learnstorm.khanacademy.org/?utm_source=youtube&utm_medium=desc.

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I'm Yuki, and I work as the science content manager. I work on the videos, exercises, and articles in our sciences, so, biology, chemistry, and physics. Failure is growth, I think is a motto I've seen upstairs, but yeah, for me, growth mindset is really all about embracing failure, and embracing just trying things, even when you know it's not gonna work the first time, and it might not even work the second time, but you just keep trying, and you might try adapt a little bit until you feel like you've really got it, because you can do anything. I, an example I might give is in chemistry. So, that's where my background is, and that's arguably, my expertise. It is my expertise. But I wouldn't say that's something that necessarily came that easily to me. I think it took me a really long time to develop good study habits, and one thing that was really hard for me, from the beginning, was like, speaking up when I needed help. And so I learned pretty late in college, that if I didn't get something, really, like, even though I might feel like I was gonna look dumb, getting, letting a teacher or a T.A. know right away that, "Hey, I don't get this. "Can you explain this to me again?" Very quickly, was important. So, going to office hours, really being super vocal about when I don't know something, so I could get help as soon as possible. And then, also, the other thing I figured out was the more practice I do on something, the better I'll get at it. So, even if I think I know something, if I can't actually show that on paper, that doesn't mean anything. So, trying to like, also, get lots of repetition in on things that I'm not that confident about, to really highlight when I don't know things, was something I learned very late in college, but was super helpful to me once I figured that out, not just in chemistry, but in general.