The Stanford professor who pioneered praising kids for effort says we’ve totally missed the point — Quartz

Researchers are also discovering just how early a fixed and growth mindset forms. Research Dweck is doing in collaboration with a longitudinal study at the University of Chicago looked at how mothers praised their babies at one, two, and three years old. They checked back with them five years later. “We found that process praise predicted the child’s mindset and desire for challenge five years later,” she says.

Source: The Stanford professor who pioneered praising kids for effort says we’ve totally missed the point — Quartz