2E kids are a great risk for developing "poor work ethic" because there are areas where there is essentially no correlation between their effort and the resulting outcome, and so they may learn fairly quickly that if something is difficult in their area of disability, they might as well give up because it isn't going to work matter how hard they try. If they are very bright, they may rarely encounter anything outside of their area of disability that is difficult. If they are the sort of child who can reason from the specific case to the general, then they may erroneously decide that "difficult" always equals "impossible", and then give up immediately even on tasks where increased effort would help.
