1. Your ability to perform a skill is dependent on both how much you work on it and how much innate ability you have 2. Kids often get frustrated and lose moti

1. Your ability to perform a skill is dependent on both how much you work on it and how much innate ability you have 2. Kids often get frustrated and lose motivation to work on improving when they think their work doesn't matter 3. Instilling a "growth mindset" means that they don't end up with a skewed view of how much innate ability matters because their frustration prevented them from putting in the work, and ultimately allows them to perform more skills better