Yes: I think the point above was driving at the 'praise effort not talent', which I buy, but praising effort where there was none can be counter-productive. Possibly with younger children they will actually associate the success with 'working hard' or 'talent' based on how you present it to them, but I don't think that works with older children or adults. There you'd have to actually identify what was hard work and praise that more than talents: or where something involved both, focus on the work.