Hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard.
Carol Dweck is a leading expert in motivation and personality psychology. I stumbled across her research while reading The Talent Code by Daniel Coyle and How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer. I was fascinated by her findings, especially this one: praising children’s intelligence harms their motivation and it harms their performance! Piqued, I needed to find out more, so I wrapped my arms around Dweck’s own book, Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.