Word: mentality
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...morning after the acquisition, Kingsmill and Merriman powwowed in a café in beachside Manly. For managing director Kingsmill, high on the to-do list was meeting with Jennings and Mombassa. A founding member of the celebrated band Mental As Anything, Mombassa never formally cut ties with Mambo, but in the Gazal era they frayed to a thread. In the old days, Mombassa would fill his notepads with sketches and show them to Jennings. "Dare was willing to run with stuff that wasn't going to be commercial," says Mombassa, "because he wanted to make a point." In the Gazal...
Even after 10 years without a recurrence, she knew better than to ask, Why me? But I couldn't help wondering. She did everything she was supposed to. She has a mental attitude so positive, you could sell shares in it and retire. She runs at least five miles several times a week and had regular tests and scans. This just feels all wrong...
...overlap of mental and physical boosts makes sense, given the biochemistry that's in play when your body is massaged. Levels of feel-good neurotransmitters such as serotonin and dopamine spike, while measures of the stress hormone cortisol drop. This is the same phenomenon that's at work when you feel the fabled runner's or exerciser's high, and it's also one of the things that makes a post-workout massage particularly satisfying. For people whose workouts lead to neck and back pain - or whose existing neck and back pain prevent them from exercising at all - massage...
...media can play a wicked role in society when they lead the public from ambiguous specks of evidence to a very specific mental ruling—especially since our brains are particularly attuned to negative language and images, which remain engraved in our minds longer than anything else. If more evidence exonerating Kundera is discovered one day, will it be so widely reported? Will masses of readers notice, as they did the recent accusations? And, of course, Kaavya’s alleged indiscretions would have had a more limited impact if they had occurred before the age of blogs...
...though, there is much danger in all this complacency. Sources from the opinion pages of The Crimson to annual mental health survey testify: Students here are often playing hurt. They see themselves as being held to a standard they can never truly meet, in classrooms, clubs and conversation—yet onward they plunge. The Harvard ideal, which administrators and tabletop fliers insist is unreal, means staying functional with rioting nerves, staying charming with crippling doubts, working though every impulse insists on slowing down. Just as the Ad Board sentences, so do its little disciples judge and admonish, themselves...