"What Carol found is that the children in the success only program gave up just as easily after encountering very difficult problems as they had before training. In sharp contrast, children in the attribution retraining program tried harder after encountering difficulty. **It seems as though they’d learned to interpret failure as a cue to try harder rather than as confirmation that they lacked the ability to succeed**." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[habits]], [[adversity]], [[resilience]], [[slowing-down-not-stopping]], [[quitting]] **Source** -- [[20241030 - B - Grit]]