Break the following quote from "Brainology" into two phrases of no more than a 12 words each and embed those phrases into a single sentence (use the embedded quote and breaking down quotations strategies):

"But the biggest mistake was the belief that you could simply hand children self-esteem by telling them how smart and talented they are. Even though this is such an intuitively appealing idea, and even though it was exceedingly well-intentioned, I believe it has had disastrous effects."