Victim and Creator Essay

Brandon King

Final Draft

Rick Dollieslager

8, December 2014

Victim and Creator Mindset

People in the world today are classified as either having a victim or creator mindset, however they both are very different classifications that are set to determine how people go upon doing certain task in their everyday lives. Many people have many different definitions on what a victim and a creator actually are. There are some right and wrong explanations to what these two words actually mean and how they are used to determine what people are victims and creators.

In Prof. Mirman’s blog pose he discussed a situation that occurred in one of his classes, which showed an example of a victim and creator mindset. Prof. Mirman had two students that were not able to acquire the class’s text book by the first day of class. He told the two students by the second week of the semester they needed to have the textbook. When the class showed up the second week Prof. Mirman asked the first student if they had gotten the text book. The student replied, No, the bookstore ran out copies of the textbook, it’s their fault not mine. In this situation this student would be labeled as a victim, because once they had no copies of the textbook he didn’t do any other thing to acquire the textbook to be able to have it for the next class. Prof. Mirman once asked the second student if they had gotten the text book. They replied, No, the bookstore was out of copies of the textbook. Prof. Mirman asked the student where they had gotten the book if the bookstore had ran out of copies. The student said that they called multiple colleges in the area, close and far away, but none of them seemed to have it in stock. They once went on the internet and found a used copy cheaper and were able to get it shipped quickly to their house so they would have it for class. In this example, the student would be classified as a creator. This is because in the student’s situation they didn’t get up on trying to find the textbook, they searched every other way to acquire a textbook so they would have it for class and not miss any material.

There are multiple times that I’ve been in a victim situation. For example, being that school is not my favorite thing to do, when I do something wrong or can’t get a math problem right I eventually give up and don’t try anymore. I am really not good at math, so when I take those classes I try my best to achieve a good grad, but when It comes to doing homework, quizzes, and test I seem to give up on things I don’t know or that are hard to decipher throughout the problems. Most math irritates me and makes me mad, so then I give up and no longer can concentrate to finish or figure out the problem that I am having trouble with. This situation I was a victim and should change my ways of math so that doesn’t happen again in my math classes.

A person that I would call a creator would be my uncle. He owns his own business and goes out his way to do the extra work, time, and money to help other people. He works long hour to get the job done, even if it’s dark outside. Everything he does is done way more than it should be because when he has a goal set, he’ll do up and above any possible way to achieve the goal he has set to become successful. When he does something, he does it way more than it needs to be to keep his customers happy and make his jobs as nice as physically possible. This example would make my uncle a creator, because he goes out of his way to do extra task on his own, even when something goes wrong he finds ways to fix it and proceed with the task he has to complete for the customer.

In conclusion to this article on victims and the creator mindset, people should always try to be creators in their life. Sometimes people are victims not on choice, just natural habit. Being a victim can play a big role in your life and can ruin a lot of opportunities you may have. If you are a creator you are pretty much a leader in many the things that you do. Creators do task on their feet by making decisions to achieving a goal.

Works Cited

Downing, Skip. On Course: Strategies for Creation Success in College and in Life, 7th ed. Boston: Cengage, 2014.

Mirman, David. Do You Think Like a Victim or a Creator? You Are the Prime Mover. 2 Jan. 2012. 8, Dec.2014. http://youaretheprimemover.com/2012/do-you-think-like-a-victim-or-a-creator.