How to Praise Natural Talent

"I didn't realize that the way that i was praising her was actually stunting her creativity and basitly stunting her god damn mind. So when your children do something and they draw a picture and it's like a piece of shit, and you'l i, oh, my god, that's amazing," she says. "You're not supposed to praise natural talent. You're supposed to praise effort." 'It's acknowledging to children that they've worked really hard on something, and praising their effort rather than praising their ability,' Suden adds.

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