One of the best ways to encourage succes is to support the child going in the direction they want.
For example I was criticised as a kid for not going outside and “playing with the neighborhood kids” who just wanted to be bullies and pot smokers.
I had no interest in that.
I wanted to read and study science and computers and electronics.
But I was harshly mistreated and forced into the things I did not want.
Now I have no real job skills and a lousy life.
If I had been encouraged in what I wanted I am quite certain I’d be one of these google or yahoo or ebay billionairs today.
If not from the internet then from real estate, or some other business since I had all kind of ideas (I still do, but now I have to work full time just to barely cover my rent and other expenses and back then I had much more time to work on my ideas as well as the energy of youth to persue them).
I heard on the Donny Deutsch show, called the “Big Idea” (not making any new shows anymore) about a fmily that had something like 8 kids and the oldest is like 14 and the youngest around 4 or so and 6 of the 8 are already making money (thousands of dollars in the summer, selling snacks at baseball games, for one of them) doing things they really enjoy because the parents encouraged them to do what the kids wanted.
They did not give them this garbage about how “that is not practical and you will never get anywhere by doing that”.
They encouraged them and the kids who all tried succeeded at doing what they wanted.