I had the same experience, but ‘being smart’ is an inherent feature of you, not a product of your work put in, so I felt insecure about possibly doing dumb things and damaging the perception of me as smart (which probably contributed to my adult issues with asking for help and fear of failure).
There’s a reward for doing easy thinking tasks, or for attempting ones known to be so difficult that success is not expected. However there’s no reward for trying anything that’s just far enough beyond your ability to be a good learning experience.
I had the same experience, but ‘being smart’ is an inherent feature of you, not a product of your work put in, so I felt insecure about possibly doing dumb things and damaging the perception of me as smart (which probably contributed to my adult issues with asking for help and fear of failure).
There’s a reward for doing easy thinking tasks, or for attempting ones known to be so difficult that success is not expected. However there’s no reward for trying anything that’s just far enough beyond your ability to be a good learning experience.
Sure there is: the satisfaction of pulling it off.
Sadly, one cannot eat satisfaction.