Technology has also changed how quickly investors can trade in and out of stocks, giving the entire ecosystem an increasingly obsessive short-term mindset.
But I think that starting the degree has not only enhanced my long-term prospects in terms of what I want to do when I finish playing, it has also enhanced my short-term mindset and outlook.
"That may seem like a small thing, but it is a radical departure from the short-term mindset that drives so much trading activity.
At the Business of a Better World Conference last week, former U.S. Vice President Al Gore said that one of the biggest obstacles to investments in sustainable business is the "impatient, short-term" mindset of investors coupled with a "debilitating" reliance on automated financial transactions.
The mindset is short term".
They might help in the short term, but ultimately they create a mindset that makes it more difficult for governments to raise needed revenue, he said.
Today, perhaps, individualism, liberty and a short-term financial mindset are trumping community.
Their entire mindset is far too short term and simplistic in nature.
That can give you some success in the short term, but if you get into that mindset, you lose the creativity.
He called the short term business view functionally insane and that this mindset is a "deep threat to a sustainable economy".
Cynthia M. Bulik, the director of the University of North Carolina Eating Disorders Program, explained that "diet" implies deprivation, "and deprivation goes into that whole mindset that, 'I deserve something when this is over, and this is short term.' And it can't be.
