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 taught to make as many attempts as possible to achieve what they target in certain cultural backgrounds. One of many advantages

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can bring is the encouragement to find all the

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to make the dream come true

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of later regrets.

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, mental breakdown from

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is brought up as potential cons following

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's constant attempts without progress. As for the advantages brought out of the

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doing hard

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to get closer to their goals, they are all well encouraged to put effort into every single

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of their

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, which is great and definitely

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to their personal growth no matter if their goals are reached in the end.

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, the term 'practice makes perfect' rooted in these cultures serves

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the same purpose of guiding people to keep up the hard

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and not to give up.

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, Harvard

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are known to be smarter than a majority of

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, yet the latest research done in 2010 proved that

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the intelligence, these

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, in order to stand out as the top, tended to study harder than anyone at their age by sacrificing their holidays, breaks, staying disconnected to the world of their fellows, saying no to entertainment or having

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sleep hours and so on.

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, no amount of attempts is able to guarantee

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% chance of success to anyone. Kids are taught

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but not to understand themselves as well,

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as strengths and weaknesses,

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get frustrated and strongly upset if they cannot achieve what they expect. From there, depression might sneak into their lives and cause even larger damages than the failure.

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, 35% of Korean high school

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have been reported to risk their lives studying to make their own

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to a university but could not achieve that in the end,

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in suicide and mental illness. In summary, the

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children

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are taught to

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hard towards their goals brings quite many advantages including their dream outcomes to them, yet if the scale of the expectation and how they understand themselves is not considered, they

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are more likely to fall victim

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mental breakdown.