In class we talked about a Ted Talk and an article. The Ted Talk was called “The Power of Yet” which is narrated by Carol Dweck. Dweck focuses on fixed and growth mindsets mainly on children. The article was called “The Coddling of the American Mind” by Greg Lukianoff and Johnathan Haidt. Which talks about how Lukianoff and Haidt think trigger warnings shouldn’t be necessary in school because it can affect them later in life when they don’t get one. A growth mindset is to understand the importance of persistence and determination. By changing the way you think, and you can change the way you learn. Whereas a fixed mindset is believed to be that they’re either good or bad at something based on their inherent nature. Those with fixed mindsets may avoid challenges, give up easily and ignore useful negative feedback. The opposite of this fixed mindset is the growth mindset. I think that it is important to consider trigger warnings in higher education because teachers and students should be warned that there could be someone in their class who has experienced a past trauma that could set off a trigger. This is also important because it can help with the growth mindset of traumatized students, because without a trigger warning the student could shut down and not complete the work with that idea. For non-traumatized students trigger warnings help their growth mindset because they would have to put themselves in the other student’s shoes to understand why it’s either hard for that student, or for why they were given a warning.