"My daughter Lucy was still a baby when I first read Bob’s work on learned industriousness, and her sister, Amanda, was a toddler. With both girls, I soon discovered I was ill-suited to play the role Bob had in his experiments. It was difficult for me to create **the necessary contingency for learning**—in other words, **an environment in which the acknowledged rule was If you work hard, you’ll be rewarded. If you don’t, you won’t**." --- **Tags** -- [[quotes]], [[consistency]], [[habits]], [[routines]], [[parenting]], [[learned-industriousness]] **Source** -- [[20241030 - B - Grit]]