"It's really important to be resourceful and scrappy – a glass half full mindset," she recalls.
To Drake, the President's Surveillance Program, as it was known inside the George W Bush administration, recalled the mindset of the Stasi.
This means Strobel had to recall what his mindset and arguments were as a young man in 1980, who was influenced by the writings of Freud and Bertrand Russell he'd read years before that.
"There was an opportunity to apply a pure engineering, agile software mindset to biotech here," Dabrowski recalled.
"As someone deeply weary of jingoism and the political rhetoric of patriotism, I had long disliked Turkish identity politics," he recalls of his mindset as a student.
Already a veteran of the LA music scene by 1971, Horn recalls his "jaded" mindset before meeting Harrison, but describes the session as a "real turning point" in his career, "because we were doing something for a cause".
Using the "eye for an eye" mindset, they justified their horrible deeds by recalling the daily atrocities and injustices forced upon them in the not-so-distant past.
By its choice of phrasing, a headline can influence your mindset as you read so that you later recall details that coincide with what you were expecting.
"How quickly and reliably can mindsets change?" she asked, recalling that Myanmar has had half a century of military dictatorship and just three years of tentative reform.And although ceasefires have been signed in most of the score of ethnic conflicts that have simmered since independence in 1948, a comprehensive peace deal remains a distant dream.
Apparently, whatever is propelling the recall vote on California's governor extends throughout the state, hinting that the mindset behind the effort against Mr. Davis may well run very, very deep.
