How to screw learning with one simple belief
▻http://pjf.id.au/ethics/2014/01/25/how-to-screw-learning-with-one-simple-belief.html
This. Right here. Look at it.
It’s a graph showing the performance of children after they’ve been praised for their intelligence (“you must be smart”) versus their effort (“you must have put a lot of effort into that”), and then given a series of hard problems to try to solve. The kids who are taught that effort count increase in the number of problems they can solve. Those who are told that they’re smart show a frightening decrease.