entertainment, especially video games, with an educational aspect.

explaining that if teachers use less complexity and time in their teachings, students are less likely to be distracted.

these 2 ideas both surround the idea of focus, as the author later explains

having many abilities/aspects.

explaining how a distraction, the "mighty force", breaks focus, the "powerful barrier".

transmute: to change in form, nature, or substance.

People should help each other with despite of appearance of them or the "facts" used.

this explains that people who aren't able to think for themselves end up following and copying the ideas and opinions of others, instead of making their own.

Shows how students with a growth mind-set improve their intelligence. The student puts a lot of effort into understanding the material because she is determined to grow her intelligence. A student with a fixed mind-set most likely would of given up, and maybe would end up cheating for an advantage in the class, but without improving their own intelligence.

This shows another downside of being a student with a fixed mindset on their intelligence. The students feel that they can't understand since they have a fixed mindset on their intelligible abilities, so they resort to cheating, which does not help them improve.

These students are probably not praised as much for their intelligence since they feel like they have to do certain tasks to "prove" their intelligence.

Showing how the education in college doesn't matter in learning how to do a certain job.

This is also an important quote for students to follow because students shouldn't be as worried about what they want to do, but they should be more worried about being able to do what they want to do once they are set on one choice.

I think this is an important quote for everyone to follow because a lot of students are afraid of not being able to fulfill their future in terms of a career or major. The author gives insight on how he was able to adapt to his workplace and was able to get better at his job.

How can we tell others have a "clear passion"? If people don't know what they're passionate about, or should be passionate about, how can those people find their true and "clear" passion?

I agree with what the author infers about why his father goes to college so his kids can be successful. I do think that when people are going to college just for their current or future family success, it gives them that form of "self-service" because it makes them feel like they are making a sacrifice for the greater good for everyone in the family as a whole, and knowing they are responsible for the success of the family, makes them feel accomplished.

The author here is explaining how people get feel and get "self-love" by pleasing themselves with their actions to their own religion. A sense of pleasing a higher power, like God, used by the author as an example, can make these people feel they have self-fulfillment within themselves.

Authors can use their own understanding of different mentalities and mental states through personal experience or someone else's experience, to create unique characters and situations in literacy fiction.