The Importance of a Hard Task

In studies with different ages of kids where they worked on a task, and then they were praised for their ability or intelligence. Or they were praised the process, their effort or their strategies. And we saw over and over and over again that the kids praised for intelligence developed in that situation, more of a fixed mind set. They didn't want a hard task. When we gave them a hard task, they lost confidence, their performance plummeted, and they lied about it later. In that mind set where intelligence is revered as andond they couldn't come to terms with doing poorly. But when we praised the process,. the effort or the strategy, they adopted more of a groth mind sed