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I'd like to add to not saying "you're so smart," you should say "wow it looks like you worked really hard at that." Makes the kid realize that's what's importan

• chrisco255 7y ago
  But is it the case in life that effort is always rewarded? No. Look you can invest an incredible amount of effort into constructing a bridge. If it collapses and kills people, nobody cares about how much effort went into it. It was a faulty design. Human civilization is advanced by working smarter, not harder.
• dragontamer 7y ago
  I disagree on "effort counts". In practice and in the work place, the only thing that matters is if you get your work done or not. You can spend a lot of effort on things and get almost nothing done... I know programmers who spent 2+ years on custom unit-testing solutions (and I guess management never noticed this guy was spinning his wheels on something that has been solved in multiple github projects or something...) Just because he put a lot of work in doesn't mean that other engineers respected his work or even he got anything done. All it means is that he wasted 2-years on the project. That's real life.