Praise and Resilience

Praising children for their intelligence can lead to a lack of resilience, especially after failure. Instead, focusing on the effort and process encourages persistence and improvement. Angela shares her struggle to shift her feedback style, recognizing that specific, process-oriented praise is ultimately more beneficial than general accolades.

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Related Questions
- Does praising kids' intelligence affect them?
- Do kids perform better after effort-based praise as discussed in the Huberman Lab episodes "How to Enhance Performance & Learning by Applying a Growth Mindset | Huberman Lab Podcast" and the clip "Praise and Performance"?