When the environment changes, mentality need to change as well
I just got a very bad quiz grade from my class. At first it was devastating, then I went into denial. I thought I did very well walking away from class that day. "How can my grade be this bad? It must be some mistake." I then fantasize about different kind of scenario where I actually got good grades. But when I went to professor's office to look at the quiz, I knew it was my grade, my really bad grade. The professor let me look at his solutions and answered all my questions. It turned out that I made a very stupid mistake, memorizing the equation wrong. That took most of my points off because he did not give any partial credits. I understand. Even though it was just a matter of different power of the variable, it showed that I didn't understand the concept. I didn't know the correct unit, hence did not understand what the Elastic Module is. It is a energy density. Energy over volume. Stupid mistake but now I don't think I will forget it. However, I ...