All of us experience a string of failures and successes throughout our development.  Some of them reflect the boundaries to our ability and some of them reflect the arbitrary nature of social or academic evaluation.  As we grow and develop we have to navigate this important domain and In Chapter 13 we explore different explanatory styles that tend to develop for explaining for success and failure: Mastery-oriented and Learned Helpless-oriented.  Most of us demonstrate a mix of these styles; different ones dominating in different domains of our performance.  Read over the definitions of these styles and decide which one most accurately describes you.  Speculate on what contributed to your development of this style.  Discuss how it impacts you currently.  How does this influence your motivation and willingness to try new things?

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