In some cultures, children are often told that they can achieve anything if they try hard enough. What are the advantages and disadvantages of giving children this message?

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are always taught by the adults in some tradition that there is nothing cannot achieve when they are working hard enough.

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can learn about healthy competition, having perseverance and gaining independence from hard-working but there are

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drawbacks to be taken into accounts. On the

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of advantages of pushing

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to achieve everything by putting in reasonable effort.

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benefit is that

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can learn about having healthy competition. It teaches them about the real competitive world outside as they realise early that they need to try hard enough to gain any accomplishment.

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, teaching them to put in the appropriate effort is an advantage because

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step to learn about having perseverance. They can learn to be patient and keep the work done in order to reach the target.

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, Working hard teaches them responsibility and independence.

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skill can help

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to become an adult who is ready to enter the society.

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problem with forcing them to get their goal by trying hard enough leads to the gap between guardians and

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because

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tend to hide from them when they couldn’t succeed in their lives as parents are blaming them for not paying enough attention to the goal. Another possible issue is that

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can get trauma and lost self-confidence when they are not successful as others even though they eventually are trying their best.

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, while a slow learner studies 8hours daily, the talented student only gives 2 hours of his/her time for studying but the slow learner still cannot compete with the talented

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. In that kind of situation, they can suffer depression and lost self-confidence as they cannot make well with others. In conclusion, while

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can benefit from telling them that working hard can fulfil everything they desired, it can

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lead to a gap between family or losing self-confidence.