Posts: Links / Will I? vs. I will! - Jonah Lehrer on Intrinsic Motivation

I was familiar with the developmental studies with having kids color and giving them either stickers for their work or no stickers. I wonder, however, how young children would react to the I Will Do vs. Can I Do mentality. Rather than offer them rewards for their coloring give them a project and phrase it as stated above. I wonder this because young children have these tendency to overestimate their abilities, thinking they can do any thing no matter how difficult. I wonder how intrinsic motivation would influence young children's overestimation. I think I might like to test this.