My though entirely. People grow but fundamentally, they don't change.

For instance, someone who is lazy won't become hard working. He can however, grow up by becoming more efficient and doing more with less work. Someone judgmental won't become tolerant, but his judgment will become more and more valuable.

IMHO, trying to change people is a lost cause. Take them for what they are and take advantage of their personality traits or let them go. And don't forget that diversity is not just about race and gender.

There is a beautiful and deep irony in that sibling comments here all read as closed to the possibility that their view on people's ability to change--whatever it may be--might be wrong.

But humans are not snakes.

But behavior is not a skin, but the core, unless it is an act.

Now that's what I call applying a growth mindset to things. /s