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All Introduction Kidding Showmanship

11/22/2021

My AI Diary

Dear Reader,

Since this is an ongoing learning process that is far from complete, I've decided to write this blog in diary format. Given that the format is less formal, be advised that I may do a bit of swearing here and there.

Sincerely,

Dr. Marie
There are sections on resources and takeaways at the bottom of the blog.


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11/21/2021

On learning new things

This blog is for me, but also for those of you who might be feeling discouraged right about now. 
Summer and Fall tend to be hard times in the goat world. Sales are down for many farms, breedings may not be going as planned, and those dratted COVID quarantine pounds just won't come off.
Many years ago a childhood friend complained that things came to me so easily. Grades, University job, Ph.D. fellowship, yada, yada. It's enough to give a friend a complex. This was sometime after she had dropped out of college. My friend was a self-proclaimed genius - and yes, she was very intelligent. The difference wasn't intelligence and it wasn't luck. It was persistence.  
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What she didn't see were the tears shed in frustration; the nagging self-doubt; the long hours struggling to meet a goal; or the number of times that I fell down, dusted myself off, and went back to work. There's a name for this in the field of education, it's called a growth mindset. I can't do that, YET.
​I learned about growth mindset fairly recently. I had just been raised to be goal oriented. Set a goal, work like heck to meet it, and then set a new goal. Then, when I was working on my Ph.D. I focused on something that I had learned from a senior professor: the candidates who graduate aren't the most intelligent, they are the most persistent. Persistent I can do. ​

​But what does that have to do with goats?

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