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Re life lesson, simple study was effective: praise effort over results

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At some point you need actual results. Otherwise people will very quickly start abusing it by saying "I tried" and walking away from problems.

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Yes, sorry I wrote short. The praise was about when the child achieves something you yse language like "you worked hard to succeed there" rather than "you're so talented to succeed there"

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6176062

(& this supports your point somewhat in that unconditional praise is also suboptimal)