How to stay Motivated? A study was conducted in 1998 at the university of Columbia by professor Claudia M Mueller. she took an outsized group of fifth graders and had them work on multitudinous puzzles by themselves. Now, these were veritably grueling puzzles. but irrespective of how well each child did, he or she was told that they scored truly well which they did better than the utmost of the opposite kiddies. Subsequently, 1/2 of these kids were told that they scored high because they worked hard while the opposite half were told that it absolutely was each because they were smart and blessed. L.s.o, they presented each kid with three other styles of puzzles to figure out. easy ones, medium difficulty ones, and intensely grueling ones. and what they found was veritably intriguing. the youngsters who were told that they did well because they were smart, spent the maturity of their time on the simple mystifications they spent nearly no time on the extremely grueling puzzles and spent ...