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[Anonymous]

Effort links novice to expert. Rigorous practice leads to performing a task with automaticity, or at least establishes a learning pattern for internalizing any giving routine and a chance to try performing a routine or task with confidence. As a result performing the task becomes second nature. The west approach to learning is minimizing the impact of embarrassment a child may experience, while attempting to complete a task. However the east view flawed performance as an opportunity for task analysis and see what areas can be strengthen by trial and error. It seems that is in this process that learning takes place. However, is worth stating that; “Stigler is not the first psychologist to notice the difference in how east and West approach the experience of intellectual struggle…Jin Li is a professor at Brown University who, like Stigler, compares the learning beliefs of Asian and U.S. children. She says that to understand why these two cultures view struggle so differently, it's good to step back and examine how they think about where academic excellence comes from.”
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2012/11/12/164793058/struggle