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Carol Dweck says we should praise effort, not success, if we want people to love challenges and practice persistence. So, praise effort, measure results, but d
by stretchwithme 14y ago
Carol Dweck says we should praise effort, not success, if we want people to love challenges and practice persistence.
So, praise effort, measure results, but don't worry about time spent at a desk.
- jacques_chester 14y agoThis is true for teaching children the value of persistence and effort. In a work environment, however, it teaches everyone that all that is valued is wasteful heroics.
- stretchwithme 14y agoHeroics? How is carrying through on things that take long term effort anything like wasteful heroics?
- jacques_chester 14y agoIt's not. I think we're talking about different things. Heroics are unavoidable -- sometimes there's no alternative. But it can slip into a pathological state where only heroic effort is recognised and rewarded; and so becomes the norm. When you say "praising for effort", I thought you were making the same class of error.