The concept of "growth vs fixed mindset" is great, and relates to the advantage of encouraging children with "good work" rather than "you're smart". I read the

The concept of "growth vs fixed mindset" is great, and relates to the advantage of encouraging children with "good work" rather than "you're smart". I read the Mindset book a couple years ago, or should I say, I read part of it. Halfway through and it was still repeating the same mantra "be a 'growth' mindset, not a 'fixed' mindset!" without much variation. One problem with it is that it had the approach of you having a single mindset, which isn't my experience. In some fields, such as programming, I innately believe in learning and improving. In others, such as interpersonal behaviour, I apparently do not. I get the "growth mindset" idea, but the book didn't seem to provide specific tools to help me address the fixed mindset I have in some fields, as I subconsciously conclude "I don't need this because I've got the right mindset in $other_ field".