How To Stay Motivated - The Locus Rule
How To Stay Motivated - The Locus Rule A study was conducted in 1998 at Columbia University by a professor Claudia M Muellershe took a large group of fifth graders and had them work on numerous puzzles by themselves now these were very challenging puzzles but regardless of how well each child did he or she was told that they scored very well. That they did better than most of the other kids afterwards half of these students were told that they scored high because they worked hard while the other half were told that it was all because they were smart and gifted then they presented each student with three more types of puzzles to work on easy ones medium difficulty ones and extremely challenging ones and what they found was very interesting the students who were told that they did well because they were smart spent the majority of their time on the easy puzzles . T hey spent almost no time on the extremely challenging puzzles and spent much less time overall trying to solve ...