A study was made at the Columbia University where they took a large group of fifth graders and had them work on numerous puzzles by themselves. These were very challenging for them, but regardless of how well each child did, they were told that they scored very well - that they did better than most of the other kids. Afterward, half of these students were told they scored higher because they worked very hard to achieve that while the other half were told that they achieved it because they were smart. Then they presented each student with three different types of puzzles to work on - easy ones, medium difficulty ones, and extremely hard ones. What they found was the interesting taking point at the end of this challenge/study. The students who were told that they did well because they were smart spent the majority of their time on the easy puzzles while not spending any time on the hard ones, saying "I don't want to do this anymore" which means, signs of lower levels of