Building learner disposition parent workshop for margaret

The document discusses how abilities and intelligence develop through experience rather than being innate talents we are born with. It notes that as babies we cannot walk or talk, but develop those abilities through learning. A series of exercises have participants try tasks of increasing difficulty to experience how thinking hard aids in development. The document questions whether famous intelligent and talented people were born that way or gained their abilities through experience and practice over time. It concludes by asking what thinking could be happening for people who are stuck in challenging situations and what commitment to changing one's thinking could stretch their abilities.