Please read the two additional articles before answering these questions. Use these two articles as well as the textbook and/or personal experience to answer the questions below.
1. According to Cheek (2015), motivation, self-confidence, and anxiety have important psychological influences on sport performance.
While anxiety is often thought to be solely bad, many studies suggest that there are "optimal" levels of anxiety that might actually enhance performance (in sport, academics, etc.).
What do you think - is some amount of anxiety good? How would you describe the relationship between anxiety, motivation, and self-confidence?
2. Someone who has a growth mindset believes that abilities can be developed over time through hard work and practice, while an individual who has a fixed mindset believes that abilities are innate, or just part of a person's nature.
Where do you stand on the growth mindset vs. fixed mindset debate? Why?
Do you think an individual is born with one kind of mindset or is it shaped by people and the environment?