[ Education ] What’s the difference between kids who excel and kids who don’t?

From my earliest childhood my mother told me I was smart as heck. For a long time I thought she was just being nice, because real-life experience kept showing me I was dumb as a stump, a process I now recognize as “learning.” But I think that repeated statement, along with lots of reading and books and newspapers, actually helped me devote myself to serious study.

There is a fascinating Quartz (qz.com) article on exactly this point that’s really caught my thoughts, “There’s one key difference between kids who excel at math and those who don’t” at
http://qz.com/139453/theres-one-key-difference-between-kids-who-excel-at-math-and-those-who-dont/.

Guess what that key difference is?

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