Lucy's no-pain, no-gain mindset stems from a crime she suffered in her youth; like the gang-rape survivor in 1995's Marabou Stork Nightmares, she's taking revenge, but on society.
The former brazenly offers the chance to "gain the mindset of a champion"; the blurb on the back of the latter promises "secrets" that will help any reader to "become a happier, healthier and more successful person".
Read "Zen and the art of _____" books or other books on martial arts to gain a mindset.
Don't think 'I like the color blue because it's my best friend's favorite color.' To be a rebellious girl, you have to gain the mindset that makes you believe that it's okay to have your own opinion and ways of doing things.
Waitley-ism, perhaps, sits awkwardly with the town outside, in which youth unemployment increased by 230% in 2011 and gaining the mindset of a champion must be challenging, at least.
With the passing of time, I have grown tremendously from this and I have gained the mindset needed to believe that my great-grandmother might have left me physically but spiritually she is watching over me and she is proud of me.
But mostly it is mindset: gaining exposure.
It seems so long ago now, but in the print media age the crispest insights we gained into the mindset of sportspeople often came via the humble magazine Q&A.
In a paper entitled, "Whites See Racisms as a Zero-Sum Game That They are now Losing," Michael I. Norton of the Harvard Business School and Samuel R. Sommers of Tufts University conducted research on a "general mindset gaining traction among Whites in contemporary America: the notion that Whites have replaced Blacks as the primary victims of discrimination".
So what did the world's most powerful man read to gain insight into the mindset of his Politburo opposite with world peace hanging in the balance?
