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I think this article is about the study about that topic which started it all: https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/14/science/praise-children-for-effort-not-intell

• brlewis 7y ago
  Thanks for the link. ''Praising children's intelligence, far from boosting their self-esteem, encourages them to embrace self-defeating behaviors such as worrying about failure and avoiding risks,'' This is arguably good advice regarding 5th graders. For adult software engineers, however, go ahead and praise them for being smart, since worrying about software failure and avoiding software risks is great.
  • mixmastamyk 7y ago
    The use of risk in both circumstances is probably too broad to make an assertion.