In Professor Dweck’s study, 128 fifth graders were given a puzzle to complete. After finishing, some children were praised for being smart, others for working hard. The children were then given the choice of a second task, one more difficult, but from which they “would learn a lot,” or one similar to the first. Sixty-seven percent of the kids called “smart” chose the easy task; 92 percent of those praised for working hard chose the more difficult task.
-Dana Suskind
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