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September 28 2009

"Emphasizing effort gives a child a variable that they can control. They come to see themselves as in control of their success. Emphasizing natural intelligence takes it out of the child’s control, and it provides no good recipe for responding to a failure."

Psychologist Carol Dweck, quoted in The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids — New York Magazine.

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