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Promoting this video and sending it back into the queue for one more try; last queued Tuesday, July 21st, 2015 10:42am PDT - promote requested by bareboards2.

How to teach your pet kid tricks

I love fluffy kittens too!

Yeah, but now he's going to enjoy the process of progressing through failure more than the success itself, so that the rest of his life every time he masters something he'll begin looking for the next challenge and eventually he'll become an autodidact that can't land a job and has to start and sell multimillion dollar companies again and again and again just to keep from going insane!!!

Ah, this is totally in keeping with current theories. You're supposed to commend them for working hard to achieve goals (stressing the "you did good by working hard to achieve that, and you got the result you wanted" angle). Hard work is therefore more important than the actual achievement. When I was a kid, it was the "you're smart and you can do whatever you want if you put your mind to it" angle. I guess I turned out okay, but what that really says is "if you didn't succeed, it must be because you weren't good enough or smart enough" or even worse, the vaguer concept of "not having properly your mind to it" as though to get something done, all you need to do is *really* decide to do it. Looking back at my life through that filter, I can see that in lots of scenarios where I didn't live up to my potential it was because I was stuck in a deadlock situation because this notion of the requirement to fully commit myself to a thing in order to do it, which just made me anxious and avoid challenges.

I don't have any kids yet, but I'd go with the style in this video over the own style I was subjected to (with the best of intentions). Of course, by the time I have kids the paradigm will probably have changed again and we'll probably be back to whuppings and public humiliation or something.

Well, that was a good personal psychological session for today in response to an old video. I feel so much better. Where's my valium?