I bought this solely on the strength of the collaborators’ Nurture Shock, a book which was completely eye-opening for me, but whose shocks have diminished as the counter-intuitive truths have entered the mainstream (i.e. don’t praise children for their intelligence, praise their effort because the former is seen as intrinsic whereas they have control over the latter). Didn’t even know what this one was about when I bought it, I just wanted more of the same type of research and unexpected results. I wasn’t disappointed. […]