I was reading this book " How We Decide" (must read by the way) and one of the examples was this distinction between two groups of students who scored well in an easy test.
One group was told, "Wow you must be smart" and the other "Wow, you must have worked really hard at this". The first group showed deteriorating performance with increasing level of difficulty of test and gradually accepting maybe they were not as smart as they were told.
While the other group kept trying even in higher test and score far better. Of course both the groups were divided equally in terms of intelligence and attitude.
Very important perspective for every walk of life.
I was reading this book " How We Decide" (must read by the way) and one of the examples was this distinction between two groups of students who scored well in an easy test.
One group was told, "Wow you must be smart" and the other "Wow, you must have worked really hard at this". The first group showed deteriorating performance with increasing level of difficulty of test and gradually accepting maybe they were not as smart as they were told.
While the other group kept trying even in higher test and score far better. Of course both the groups were divided equally in terms of intelligence and attitude.
Very important perspective for every walk of life.