Do not praise intelligence or empty effort, praise learning Most parents nowadays have heard about the importance of helping children grow by praising effort instead of intelligence . I’ve been reflecting upon that topic and reading some articles that have refined my perspective and I want to share that with you. We need to praise learning, not just effort, and definitively not intelligence. The dangers of praising intelligence I was always a straight “A” student and my parents were always very supportive and loving. Yet it was not uncommon for me as a child, and still now as an adult, to get into severe depressions often triggered by one particular reason: failure to achieve something. You see I grew accustomed to success, at least academically, and every time I “failed”, which in my world was to get a “B”, I was devastated. My parents tried to help me and never made a big deal out of my failures, on the contrary. My mom in fact always emphasized my grades were n
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