Engineering Mindset vs. Scientific Mindset — The Shift That Changes Your Entire Career There’s a distinction that nobody teaches you in school, and yet it quietly decides the pace of your growth, the quality of your confidence, and even the direction of your career: Scientific mindset vs. Engineering mindset. I didn’t know this difference early in my life. And because I didn’t know, I paid the price for years. I grew up with a very scientific orientation: I would stay silent