"To understand the significance of hard work, Coyle (2009) presented in his book The Talent Code the remarkable and significant 2007 educational social study by Dweck, which involved four hundred New York fifth graders. Coyle (2009) writes that the study by Dweck was a scientific version of the fable 'The Princess and the Pea'. "The goal was to see how much a tiny signal - a single sentence of praise - can affect performance and effort, and what kind of signal was most effective.""
"Following the completion of this puzzle, Coyle writes that Dweck informed all four hundred participants of their score. According to Coyle, when Dweck was providing each student with their score, through a process of random selection, one half of the four hundred students were praised with a "single six-word sentence of praise: 'You must be smart at this.'" The other half of the four hundred students were praised with two combined sentences: "You must be smart at this. You must have worked really hard.""
Four hundred New York fifth graders completed a fairly easy puzzle and received their scores. Half of the students were praised with the single sentence "You must be smart at this." The other half were praised with two sentences: "You must be smart at this. You must have worked really hard." Random assignment isolated the effect of a single sentence of praise on motivation and effort. Participants were then offered a choice between a more challenging puzzle and an easier one to measure persistence and willingness to take on difficulty.
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