Word: mindsets
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...definition of realism. Instead, in the board’s point of view, the final subjects are fundamentally relevant to American readers; the underlying them is an emphasis on things that have been “made,” a concept that Waters finds integral to the American mindset and tradition...
According to Kaufman, however, a reference book written largely by individuals established in the academy has an inherent flaw, regardless of that work’s accessibility. “To a certain extent it kind of demonstrates the academic mindset, in that the only other people who have read the book contributed to it,” Kaufman says. “This happens all the time in academia. It’s just that they chose a different kind of academic, so some of the contributors are out as public intellectuals and public figures...
Taken to a more extreme level, it’s a pattern of behavior that calls to mind the drug-user analogy that Darkhawk made as he searched for a way to describe the night he lost it all, a mindset that he associates, pointedly, with “gambling” and not poker-playing. For the pros, the Hawrilenkos and Darkhawks of the world, riding a long smooth curve of expected value and carefully weighed percentages, the adrenaline rush is largely a thing of the past...
...Cynthia played fantastic today, she really kept us in the game,” sophomore Carly Dickson said. “We really went in with the right mindset, and we were great defensively...
...mindset paid off, and Sinatra’s lyrics sum up the rest: “I’m gonna’ make a brand new start of it—in old New York...