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Filed under: Development/Milestones: Babies, Media
In Time magazine's cover story this week, reporters
explore the roots of ambition, and wonder if some people are just born ambitious - while recognizing that, in some,
ambition suddenly develops. The sidebar is about kids: how do you help them develop their inner drive? Most children
work hard at every new skill from the first pincer grasp through long division. But at some point - usually in middle
or high school - many children lose their ambition and fall into a long, slow spiral of dispassion.
How to fix this? Brainology. It's an experimental personal growth workshop conducted by Stanford psychology professor Carol Dweck. She's been running this basic neuroscience class for the past few years with New York City seventh-graders. She teaches them how the brain works and how they can control their own intelligence throughout their lives. She has a message for parents, too - praise "their effort, strategy and progress rather than emphasizing their 'smartness' or praising high performance alone." We've seen this before in the anti-self-esteem movement, and it also smacks of quantum physics and "you create your day." To get ambition in your kids: get educated, parents. And lay off the outrageous expectations. You just may be surprised.
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