When the user catches themselves in fixed-mindset self-talk ("I'm bad at X," "I'm not a math person," "my kid is just naturally talented"), or wants to recover from a public failure without spiraling, or wants to shift parenting language away from "you're so smart," apply Dweck's framework: implicit
When the user catches themselves in fixed-mindset self-talk ("I'm bad at X," "I'm not a math person," "my kid is just naturally talented"), or wants to recover from a public failure without spiraling, or wants to shift parenting language away from "you're so smart," apply Dweck's framework: implicit theories of intelligence (fixed vs growth) and the "yet" reframe. The skill is **honest about scope