**Kids who are encouraged to follow their passion develop better
discipline, deeper knowledge, and are more persevering and more
resilient in the face of setbacks.
Thinking out loud: Is the contrasting case simply individuals with no
intrinsic motivation? They have no `discipline' because there is
nothing they want to do. On one hand I can imagine that that there are
good survival characteristics to learning (early in life) to manage
demands that are of little or no interest to them. The children that
can resist the cookie where `cookie' is not the sugary treat, but the
thing they want to do. On the other hand, maybe if you make it to
adulthood with no real innate curiosity and drive, then you'll never
develop it?
Marcus
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