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| Articles about Mentality |
| Understanding Herd Mentality in Horse Training | | 2008-08-04 00:00:00 | | Despite mankind’s top level status in the evolutionary chain, understanding and making friends in the animal kingdom has a lot of rewarding benefits. Whether the formed relationship is for companionship, working purposes, or both, it helps to when one can learn the language of the animal counterpart.
The great thing about animals is their honesty. [...] | | By: Resources Zone | | |
| | Herd Mentality | | 2008-07-02 02:03:32 | | Ladies and gentlemen… behold… the newest Danish cartoon crisis. Except this time it comes in two fantastic parts:
1. Part “Israeli conspiracy theory to brain wash our youth into only caring for immoral strippers” courtesy of many of the so called “parties” who only have a say on such silly events, including leftist, socialist, Muslim Brotherhood, [...] | | By: And Far Away... | | |
| | It's all about your mentality | | 2008-03-01 21:33:29 | | Some people have a 'rich' mentality; others (which is most people) either have a 'poor' mentality or a 'comfortable' mentality. You mentality determines your general, habitual level of wealth. Although there might be ups and downs, a person with a poor mentality will generally always be poor. What happens to lottery winners? If they have a poor person's mentality, they're going to loose the cash., so they might be rich for a while, but in the end, they finish up poor again, or even in debt - worse than they were before! I came across a story on MSN that makes the point very well. For me, the most telling quotation is from a study which concluded that 'people who come into a windfall will typically put buying a house as No. 1 in list of 12 choices, while investing is No. 11.' That says it all. These people don't have a clue.On the other hand, 'rich mentality' people are going to be rich no matter what. The stock market might crash, their business might burn down, or whatever. But they'l | | By: The Money Making Mindset | | |
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| The good that comes from a herd mentality | | 2008-02-29 09:04:51 | | Copyright © learnsigma 2008 . This article may be out-of-date; visit the latest version at http://learnsigma.com/the-good-that-comes-from-a-herd-mentality/.
photo credit: Eduardo Amorim
The crucial point we neglect when making decisions at work is what incredible copy-cats we all are. If a group of people or a famous person does something, even something horrible like suicide, others follow:
The month [...] | | By: learn about lean & six-sigma | | |
| | | Mentality of the 'ghetto' | | 2007-11-29 14:20:00 | | Bat Yeor: The people of Israel are unworthy of their ancestors. The post Oslo Jew has returned to the pre- Holocaust mentality of the 'ghetto' Jew. The Jew that doesn't want to be noticed, the Jew who will do anything to appease those that hate us, just to live in peace. Instead of asserting OUR rights, OUR will that we have a right, are the rightful heirs of Israel and Jerusalem, we are acting as if we have no rights and instead are begging, begging, our enemies to recognise us and accept us! Behaving like beggars! Ans the silence of American Jews, well it's the ghetto mentality mixed with those that have assimilated into American culture, the let's not rock the boat crowd. More... | | By: THE NEW BABYLON TIMES | | |
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| The "Spoiler" Mentality | | 2007-10-02 23:26:38 | | As the end of every regular season nears, each non-contending team seems to regain its sense of purpose. Many of them have already been mathematically eliminated, but that nagging issue doesn't seem to cast a damper on their renewed enthusiasm. This enlivened commitment to victory has nothing to do with an improvement in their own playoff fortunes; in fact, it has everything to do with the opportunity to hurt the chances of others. I've always found this motivation somewhat baffling.It's not just the fact that taking pleasure in the failures of others isn't something which people generally boast about, or even admit. I mean, we've all felt that way at one point or another, so I won't pretend that the "spoiler" teams are any more morally bankrupt than the average person. "Misery loves company" is an old saying, after all. But how many of us go to work each day with the intention to make others miserable?I suppose that much much of the "spoiler" phenomenon stems from the fact that MLB players are highly motivated individuals who have dedicated their entire lives to a highly competitive game; their natures may be such that "meaningless" September games simply don't provide the intensity they require in order to perform at their peak. I can only imagine the athletic skill and determination possessed, and the overwhelming pressure endured, by even the least-talented major leaguer, so I'll try not to pass judgement. But I do have to question a few comments made by the Marlins this weekend, (which prompted this meandering reflection in the first place) as they desperately sought to ensure the Mets' downfall:A day after they got pounded 13-0 in a game marred by a bench-clearing brawl, the last-place Marlins were the team that came out swinging early Sunday. They chased 300-game winner Tom Glavine with seven runs in the first inning and then bragged how they planned to laugh all the way on their plane ride home about how they ruined New York's season."It was a big game for us, one of the biggest games in club history besides the playoffs because there was a lot riding on today,'' pitcher Dontrelle Willis said.The 2007 Marlins really don't have much to laugh about. Nor can they accurately claim to have "ruined" the Mets' season. In fact, despite their series victory this past weekend, they finished the year with a 7-11 record against the Mets--that's a .579 winning percentage in the season series for the Mets, a team which finished with an overall mark of .543. Meanwhile, the Marlins split their 18 games with the Phillies. While they may have struck the final blow, they had little to do with the overall collapse. So, in addition to representing incredibly poor sportsmanship, the Marlins' post-victory braggadocio wasn't even justified.And now we come to Dontrelle Willis. Someone who knew nothing about baseball could be forgiven easily for mistakenly concluding, on the basis of this comment alone, that Willis' locker was situated in the home team's clubhouse at Shea. Dontrelle seems a little confused. Apparently he felt that the game which decided whether the last-place Marlins finished 71-91 or 70-92 was "one of the biggest games in club history."OK, so he excluded playoff games from consideration. But one would think that just about every regular season game played by the 2003 Marlins alone, a team to which Willis belonged, was more important to the franchise than its latest contest. The Marlins won the wild card in 2003, before defeating the Yankees in the World Series, but had even 4 of its regular season games gone the other way, Dontrelle's fingers might be devoid of championship hardware today. In short, there was plenty riding on Sunday's game for the Mets, but almost nothing hinging on it for the Marlins.Dontrelle wasn't alone in attributing immense significant to his team's final 2007 regular season game:"This was our Game 7,'' team President David Samson said.If I were a Marlins fan, this is the last thing I'd want to hear my club's President say. Shouldn't a team (and the executives in charge of it) have greater aspirations than finishing a mere 20 games below .500? Samson's implying that the Marlins' victory on Sunday enabled them to emerge victorious from a season of failure. I'm not buying it.This leads me to my last point: equal-opportunity spoilers really aren't spoilers at all. See, the job of a "spoiler" in baseball is an impossible one, since, try as they might, all of the "spoilers" combined can't prevent the playoffs from taking place. If a "spoiler" hurts one team's odds of playing October baseball, it simultaneously improves those of another; yes, the Mets were "spoiled," but the Phillies were "freshened" to an equal degree. Teams routinely proceed through their September schedule, playing different opponents every few days, (many of them competing against each other within in the same division) and proudly expressing the desire to "spoil" at each successive destination. It doesn't work like that, guys.Just once I'd like to see a selective spoiler; if a team really cares about spoiling, and bears a grudge against a specific playoff contender, (as the Marlins seem to towards the Mets) it should go all the way and do the job right. Losses to every one of the target's rivals, and wins against the unsuspecting victim, would do the trick nicely, at least until the Commissioner's office got involved. But even more than that, I'd like to see an end to this "spoiler" nonsense altogether. | | By: Between the Lines | | |
| | Digg and the problem with mob mentality | | 2007-05-04 21:47:00 | |
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Digg and the problem with mob mentality
(May 4th, 2007 - 12:47PM)
As the entire Internet seems to know, on May 1st Digg suffered a total implosion when its administrators attempted to censor stories about the HD-DVD key being leaked. In theory, the HD-DVD key can be used to circumvent copy protection measures on HD-DVDs. When Digg received a cease and desist order, they opted to remove all stories containing the HD-DVD key from their site.
Digg's user base lashed back by spamming the front page with stories about the key and burying all other stories, rendering Digg.com entirely useless. The fiasco finally settled down when Kevin Rose, founder of Digg, bowed to the pressure and agreed not to censor the key anymore.
Digg is a user-generated news site, meaning that readers choose which stories make it to the front page and which are considered irrelevant. The problem with user-driven sites is that in extreme cases like this, the " | | By: Steve Kwan, Software Engineer | | |
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