Word: mindset
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Having a sense of perspective, however, does not mean that you stop caring about the little things in life or the daily grind ahead. Armed with perspective, one is able to appreciate things for what they are, and undertake the same task with a better mindset. Contemplation does not mean rejection of the practical--rather, reflection complements action and does not categorically hinder...
This is a real problem because a large portion of America has fallen into this mindset, and that's why we're always in hopeless search of mental and spiritual fulfillment. Harvard students are no better than anyone else is. We have the same mental and spiritual desires that every human being has, maybe more, and we're not talking about them. And when we graduate and start those lucrative jobs that we're all so in search of, we still won't be talking about them...
This, perhaps, explains why I have a tough time understanding the mindset of those who submit to the rigors of the sport. And it is why I have an even tougher time understanding why women at a school with such a vast breadth of athletic and extracurricular options would want to start an organization with wrestling as its defining activity...
Perhaps he was speaking for the campus, perhaps he was referring to the internal mindset of the team; either way, it's difficult to challenge the words spoken by men's basketball team captain Mike Scott: "No one expected us to be anything...
...There was a military mindset at work," McGuinness said. "[They thought that] the way to defeat resistance in Ireland was with force...that they tried to do and in that they failed...