Guarding Durant requires a certain fatalistic mind-set.
In a rare interview at her charitable foundation here, Ms. Qaddafi, 36, a Libyan-trained lawyer who once worked on Saddam Hussein's legal defense team, offered a glimpse into the fatalistic mind-set of the increasingly isolated family at the core of the battle for Libya, the bloodiest arena in the democratic uprising that is sweeping the region.
The dialectic opposite of Fixed-Mind is Fatalistic-Mind.
Fatalistic-Mind is a problem because it removes personal responsibility by implicating that "change is unnecessary because there is no answer".
So Cameron will have to get a grip, ditch under-performing ministers, cajole Osborne into a less fatalistic frame of mind and persuade voters he knows where he wants to take up.
But their efforts to date give comfort to those of a more fatalistic cast of mind, who believe good government cannot be engineered, but must evolve.In 2000, the Bank unveiled its strategy for reforming public institutions and strengthening governments.
Chapman has a fatalistic turn of mind ("It had been his habit, for at least a decade, to turn to the obituary pages first. He needed to know who was in and who was out"); and finds his worst fears realised when he lands in hospital with a tumour growing in his stomach.
And they did it with this stoic but fatalistic frame of mind of 'Well, hell, it can't get any worse.
Kay, with colleagues Simone Tang and Steven Shepherd, suspected that very difficult choices -- dilemmas with no clear solution -- shift us into a more fatalistic state of mind.
Although the findings should first be cross-validated in prospective studies, public health professionals working with youth might already start considering early interventions in youth with all too fatalistic and powerless mind-sets.
