Does negativity promote growth according to a sixth grader’s experiment?

I was shocked when I read this.

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Yesterday I read something that fascinated me. A sixth-grader wrote it. It also made me think and question so much about my life. Yes, all this is from a sixth grader’s science experiment.

So what was this revolution that I read about?

Anonymous science experiment from a sixth grader.

It reads:

Conclusion: My hypothesis was refuted by the data I collected. I predicted that the positive plant group would grow faster than the negative plant group. The results show that the negative plant group grew faster than the positive plant group. — sixth grader, anonymous.

I am honestly shocked. Then I started thinking about my life. Why and how did I do things. It was because someone told me that I could not do it most of the time.

A friend, a stranger, said that my idea was stupid. I was not smart enough to get into college. I did not have the skillset for a specific job. I was crazy for chasing my dreams. I was giving up on a good man, and I needed to be less picky. I needed to settle down and get married. I needed to stop chasing a…