I have this book sitting at home, but haven't started it yet. I found this study to be particularly interesting and applicable.
Dweck and her colleagues gave each ten fairly challenging problems from a nonverbal IQ test, then praised the student for his or her performance — most had done pretty well. But they offered two types of praise: Some students were told “Wow, you got [X many] right. That’s a really good score. You must be smart at this,” while others, “Wow, you got [X many] right. That’s a really good score. You must have worked really hard.” In other words, some were praised for ability and others for effort. The findings, at this point, are unsurprising yet jarring:
What’s so alarming is that we took ordinary children and made them into liars, simply by telling them they were smart.
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