Working Theory

Shocking news: personality is not set in stone at birth. Apparently the academic nurture/nature pendulum is still swinging.

But this one scientist ran a cool experiment. She gave a bunch of pre-teens a test. She randomly praised half for being so smart, and praised the other half for being such hard workers.

Then she gave them all another test, a harder one. One group did a lot better than the other this time.

Don't rest on your laurels and smirk.
Even the smart need to work.