I Was Told I Was Very Smart

Re:I Was Told I Was Very Smart by albertsun on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @11:31PM (#896168)

I don't buy the connection between being told you're smart and having a fear of failure. Just because many people have been told they're smart and many people fear failure doesn't mean that there's any relationship between the two.

And I also don't think the second one is necessarily a new phenomenon.

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Re:I Was Told I Was Very Smart by sophacles on Wednesday October 21, 2009 @11:38PM (#896175)

It's not a random correlation based on observations of adults, it's studies that show small children behave in the mentioned ways when told they are smart, when compared to being told they are hard working. A lifetime of this can ingrain certain behaviors.

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