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Due to a lack of motivation and fear of challenge, many people are unable to make progress

in their lives, but if only given a little push to do so, their state of progress in the things they
do can improvise (especially when they are kids or in learning time). Psychologist Carol
Dweck says, “Praising wisely; Praising the process that kids engage in, their effort, their
strategies, their focus, their perseverance, their improvement, this process creates kids who
are hard and resilient” (04:05-04:06; 04:15-04:30). After that, she explained the example of a
math game she collaborated to develop, that rewarded process, and got as results more
effort, strategies, perseverance, and engagement over long periods of time. I agree with
what she says, it's like winding up a toy, if it is twisted or pulled more, they work longer. Just
by encouraging the person (like a parent to a child or a teacher to a student), saying "that's
good, keep it up" improves their circumstances, encourages them to improve and gives them
more resilience. I feel identified with this, I remember when I was in puberty, entering middle
school there was an increase of exigence in the homework and exams, I wasn’t prepared
and because of that my grades started to fail, so I needed help. My parents hired a support
teacher for my study times, and by knowing how I was, she realized that what I needed was
encouragement in progress (more motivation), and by giving me that in every exercise that I
did in any course, my grades started to increase, and I ended my first year of middle school
with good grades.

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