Ahh thanks...
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The article is focused on how to effectively handle praise for smart kids. The upshot (verified by a number of clever experiments), is that when you praise a kid for being smart in general, rather than for specific accomplishments or efforts, you risk paralyzing the kid with a fear of not looking smart, to the point where they will tend to shun challenges.
I mean hopefully most kids will understand and not feel too much pressure, everyone likes praise. But I think it is a good idea to be specific because otherwise the person getting the praise might get an inflated opinion of themselves.
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We don’t work on an assembly line, so the sheer number of hours spent on physics does not necessarily translate into correspondingly more good physics. I’m certainly not trying to imply that our work isn’t highly enjoyable and rewarding. But our work is, at its heart, creative, and more than anything we need quality time to spend on physics. And by this I partly mean time during which we feel relaxed, well rested and unstressed. Taking time in one’s life to ensure that this is possible is very important and, I think, will help you do better physics.
The "Cult of Genius" is kind of funny because I had the same reaction of when initially reading about Feynman thinking, wow, he's cool in a larger than life kind of way... (I didn't know they made a movie about him!) But probably you meet very few people have that kind of genius plus the personality to go with it like those famous physicists.
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