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Well, what my comment discusses is a potential direction of research, and makes some predictions about the results of that, and isn't really about application at all.
As far as application goes, I agree that it's a good general practice to praise/reward effort rather than intelligence. Also to reward effort rather than strength, dexterity, attractiveness, and various other attributes.
More generally, I think it's a good practice to reward behaviors rather than attributes. Rewarding behaviors gets me more of those behaviors. Rewarding attributes gets me nothing predictable.
There's something to be said for rewarding results instead of effort to teach people to make sure they are actually trying rather than trying to try.
Better results than fixed attributes, certainly. No objection to rewarding results as well. My primary concern with rewarding results instead is that it seems to create the incentive to only tackle problems I'm confident I can succeed at.