Should We Stop Telling Kids They’re Smart?
By NPR/TED StaffShould We Stop Telling Kids They’re Smart?
By NPR/TED Staff
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Part 3 of the TED Radio Hour episode Nudge
About Carol Dweck’s TED Talk
Carol Dweck finds that the words adults use to describe kids’ progress affects the children’s belief in their own potential.
About Carol Dweck
Carol Dweck is a professor at Stanford and the author of Mindset, a classic work on motivation. She studies the benefits of a “growth mindset,” which is the belief that we can improve and grow. She has also taught at Harvard and Columbia.
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