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The Power (and Peril) of Praising Your Kids — New York Magazine

Interesting view on how to make people “smarter” without turning them into people who give up at the first sign of trouble…

The only difference between the control group and the test group were two lessons, a total of 50 minutes spent teaching not math but a single idea: that the brain is a muscle. Giving it a harder workout makes you smarter. That alone improved their math scores.