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There is a relationship between great success and hard childhood, I think PG for ex wrote a tweet about this around last weekend. Also: it's terrible to tell a
by lazyant 8y ago
There is a relationship between great success and hard childhood, I think PG for ex wrote a tweet about this around last weekend.
Also: it's terrible to tell a young kid "you are very talented" and similar; positive encouragement is good but it's better to praise effort.
- ineptech 8y ago> Also: it's terrible to tell a young kid "you are very talented" and similar; positive encouragement is good but it's better to praise effort. Whether this is true or not is controversial; it's primarily based on research which has many supporters, but which has also failed replication despite many attempts. See Carol Dweck's wiki page (including the "criticism" section) for more.