Try three things

p. 53

Doctor Roma Gans has stressed the need to build self-confidence in the young; and she further points out that there's a difference between a child's willingness to try three things - getting two successes and one flop - and trying only one thing that can be perfectly done.

Encouragement cultivates ideation

p.50
Even though Thomas Carlyle was right in saying, "a certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man," creativity is so delicate a flower that praise tends to make it bloom, while discouragement often nips it in the bud. Any of us will put out more and better ideas if our efforts are appreciated. Unfriendliness can make us stop trying. Wisecracks can be poison -...... Every idea should elicit receptivity, if not praise. Even if no good, it should at least call for encouragement to keep trying