> In essence, the growth mindset means whatever it has to mean at any given time
It's like that with any ideology, however good or bad it may be. A lot of people will learn the holy books just so they can use sophistry effectively in their political schemes.
The effectiveness of any political system (and a large corporation is a political system) comes down to its porousness. Too rigid and it breaks, too porous and it's not a coherent system at all.
Whenever you hear "it means whatever it has to mean at a given time", they're approaching a Wittgensteinian truth: language _always means_ whatever it has to mean at a given time. We do not judge each other by measuring a persons understanding of our words: it's immeasurable. We judge each other by the outcomes of their actions. Microsoft's revenue and valuations are up, thus the ideas "work" in the darwinian sense. Nothing else matters. Words are fundamentally meaningless, and communication of truth is fundamentally impossible.
It's like that with any ideology, however good or bad it may be. A lot of people will learn the holy books just so they can use sophistry effectively in their political schemes.