You Can’t Math Your Way to Success
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You Can’t Math Your Way to Success
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
by Scott Adams
- Don’t tell your child they are the best at math if they are not. Competence > Confidence. Competence is confidence based on actual experience.
from Jessica Lahey on Parenting, Desirable Difficulties, The Gift of Failure, Self-Efficacy, and The Addiction Inoculation (#553) by Jessica Lahey
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Doing all of this—curating an exceptional milieu, providing dedicated tutoring and opportunities for apprenticeship—is hard work. You could pull it off if you put your mind to it, I trust. Though, like everything pursued to excellence, it would demand serious sacrifices. Particularly of time. It is ok not to want that.
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... See morefrom Childhoods of Exceptional People by Henrik Karlsson
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