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Even if she went back on it (which I think she never will), people would still obsess over the idea. The ‘growth mindset’ has an agency on its own, a proper meme in the psyche of modern populus.

Something similar would be the Marshmallow Experiment, which is still to this day completely misinterpreted. People just need bases for what they want to believe; the loads of new psychological theories have the same function as modern fake news does.