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Yes, it's subtle, but it gets ingrained. Child 1 is trained to believe "whether or not I accomplish something is because of something innate in me", and Child 2 is trained to believe "whether or not I accomplish something is a function of the work I put in".

Child 2 sees failure as an obstacle to be overcome and redoubles their effort.

Child 1 sees failure as a /personal/ failure and seeks something else that they know they'll succeed at.

Two children have just completed a task. Both are praised for completing it.

Child 1 hears: "You're so smart, good job!"

Child 2 hears: "You did such good work, good job!"

They feel roughly the same, but there's a substantial difference. Consider the implications:

Child 1 hears: "You have an innate ability that allowed you to complete this task."

Child 2 hears: "You did a lot of work that allowed you to complete this task."

Now do you see the difference?

I fucking just can't with this paper right now 😂

"Methanolysis of the Cyclic Acetal Function of NanoKid Catalyzed by NanoGoblin, the Pyridinium Salt of Tetracyanocyclopentadienide"

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/abs/10.1021/acsomega.7b01748

#science #silly

https://glitch.social/media/bhoC1g35gkAWgc-X4Wo

how long until nintendo accidentally makes furniture behavior in acpc turing-complete and then someone exploits a buffer overflow to use their campsite layout to mine bitcoin on your phone when you visit them

is a girl not entitled to the but of we're both girls?

as best I can tell the reason for that much emphasis placed on polynomial equations in algebra class is that a while ago mathematicians realized you could treat them as numbers in their own right (as vectors) & proofs about them were very much in vogue in the 16th and 17th centuries, the mathematical era before calculus became fashionable

& we don't really revisit our math curriculums, we just put new stuff on the end. So polynomials come before calculus comes before topological set theory &c