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Praise for intelligence undermines children's motivation

When she praised children’s intelligence after they succeeded at a nonverbal IQ test, they subsequently didn’t want to take on a new challenge—they preferred to keep looking smart. When they were forced to complete a more difficult exercise, their performance plummeted. In contrast, some children were praised for “how” they did a task—for undergoing the process successfully. Most of the children in this group wanted to take on a tougher assignment afterwards. Their performance improved for the most part, and when it didn’t, they still enjoyed the experience.

Holy shit this explains many many things. brb going to reflect on how bloody lazy I am and/or continue doing functions

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Whew… sorry. Only an emoticon could capture that reaction.

This is so cool!

hrrrthrrr: This Tree of Life poster is hard to resist. Stand back and it looks like a cool relief print of a tree, but once you get up close, the rings are composed of hundreds of tiny animals. How cool!

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“ Si un jour la vie t’arrache à moi
Si tu meurs que tu sois loin de moi
Peu m’importe si tu m’aimes
Car moi je mourrais aussi
(if one day life takes you from me,
if you should die, be far away from me,
I care little, so long you love me,
for I, too, would die.)

— L’Hymne à l’Amour; Edith Piaf (via melodily)

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So there i was just scrolling through someones tumblr, and i came across this and i just stopped. It caught my attention for a long time. I noticed every piece breaking, in slow motion so clearly and the one thing that came to my mind was that moment when your heart breaks. When you can feel it drop and break into little pieces when you hear something that you wish wasn’t true, the truth that you have made yourself not believe, read something you wish hadn’t, or seen something you wish you hadn’t.

This is probably the most meaningful post I’ve ever seen.

wow

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Problem ?

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oceano-mare:

“NASA” published a photograph of the eclipse today May 21st, 2012

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thegreyrecords//: Drogba's Dream: The Last Charge of the Ancients

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By Jordan Brown

Didier Drogba emerged from the confines of his tent to the thrum of a busy camp. All around him the army of Chelsea were preparing for war. Infantrymen were rushing to formation, their tall pikes bobbing rhythmically as they ran. Plated…

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“ Perhaps love is a minor madness. And as with madness, it’s unendurable alone. The one person who can relieve us is of course the sole person we cannot go to: the one we love. So instead we seek out allies, even among strangers and wives, fellow patients who, if they can’t touch the edge of our particular sorrow, have felt something that cuts nearly as deep.

— Andrew Sean Greer, The Story of a Marriage (via almostvalentine)

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