Tuesday, October 13, 2015

Experiment and Experience - BYU Devotional

Experiment and Experience

From a BYU Devotional by Jennifer B. Nielson:
Dweck has proposed that there are two basic mind-sets: a growth mind-set and a fixed mind-set.11 The assumption of those with a growth mind-set is that intelligence, creativity, artistic ability, or other traits are flexible, not frozen, and that they can increase with continual practice. The assumption of those with a fixed mind-set is that traits are inherent and cannot be changed.

Thursday, May 7, 2015

Gratitude


Mosiah 24:21:
"Yea, and in the valley of Alma they poured out their thanks to God because he had been merciful unto them, and eased their burdens, and had delivered them out of bondage; for they were in bondage, and none could deliver them except it were the Lord their God."
Brigham Young said, "I do not know of any, excepting the unpardonable sin, that is greater than the sin of ingratitude." 

President Thomas S. Monson has said, "If ingratitude be numbered among the serious sins, then gratitude takes its place among the noblest of virtues." 

Wednesday, December 31, 2014

Day 365 - Moroni 10:8-34

Moroni 10
And I would exhort you, my beloved brethren, that ye remember that every good gift cometh of Christ. 
And I would exhort you, my beloved brethren, that ye remember that he is the same yesterday, today, and forever, and that all these gifts of which I have spoken, which are spiritual, never will be done away, even as long as the world shall stand, only according to the unbelief of the children of men.

Tuesday, December 30, 2014

Day 364 - Moroni 9:20-26 & 10:1-7

Moroni 9
Behold, I would exhort you that when ye shall read these things, if it be wisdom in God that ye should read them, that ye would remember how merciful the Lord hath been unto the children of men, from the creation of Adam even down until the time that ye shall receive these things, and ponder it in your hearts. 
And when ye shall receive these things, I would exhort you that ye would ask God, the Eternal Father, in the name of Christ, if these things are not true; and if ye shall ask with a sincere heart, with real intent, having faith in Christ, he will manifest the truth of it unto you, by the power of the Holy Ghost. 
And by the power of the Holy Ghost ye may know the truth of all things.

Monday, December 29, 2014

Day 363 - Moroni 9:1-19

Moroni 9
Behold, I am laboring with them continually; and when I speak the word of God with sharpness they tremble and anger against me; and when I use no sharpness they harden their hearts against it; wherefore, I fear lest the Spirit of the Lord hath ceased striving with them.