Swap "you're bad at math" with "what's happening here?" — Boaler proves the math brain is built, not born.

When he opens sensitive topic, say "tell me more" vs reply.

Task 20% bigger than employee's current ability. Scares 30%, fails 30%, succeeds 40%. Difficult balance.

Praise your child's effort and strategy, not his intelligence or talent — Carol Dweck's classic.

Math anxiety consumes working memory needed for actual problem-solving — reduce it before homework, not after failure.

Ask the model to decompose the problem and show its reasoning before answering, raising accuracy on complex tasks.

In few-shot, deliberate variety (positive/negative/edge case) matters more than count.

Ask the model to "think out loud" step by step before the final answer, especially for logic and math problems.