The Secret to Raising Smart Kids (oh.. Don't tell your kids that they are)

URL: The Secret to Raising Smart Kids

Short extract

• Many people assume that superior intelligence or ability
  is a key to success. But more than three decades of research shows that
  an overemphasis on intellect or talent—and the implication that such
  traits are innate and fixed—leaves people vulnerable to failure,
  fearful of challenges and unmotivated to learn.
• Teaching
  people to have a “growth mind-set,” which encourages a focus on effort
  rather than on intelligence or talent, produces high achievers in
  school and in life.
• Parents and teachers can engender a
  growth mind-set in children by praising them for their effort or
  persistence (rather than for their intelligence), by telling success
  stories that emphasize hard work and love of learning, and by teaching
  them about the brain as a learning machine.

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