because (so the researchers theorized) the people in the latter group had less fear of coming across something that was going to disconfirm other people's insistence on their talent.

I remember when that came out, especially since a lot of diagnosed-gifted now-adults identified it as a fear they had felt imposed on them: that they were only good for the things they had been praised for and useless for anything else. My mother's anecdata (as differentiated from her research) on that one is that there remains a population of children who will still beat themselves up for falling short of their self-set standards even if you praise them for their persistence and invention and it is incredibly frustrating.

That's a lovely poem; I can't remember if I saw it back at the time or not.

Thank you.