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shrikant on Sept 28, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: How to Reinforce Impostor Syndrome

From here perhaps:

> The point is to praise children's efforts, not their intelligence, she said.

http://news.stanford.edu/pr/2007/pr-dweck-020707.html

petercooper on Sept 28, 2012 [–]

It wasn't that, but it does seem to tie into that whole idea for sure. Good link.

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