Introduction

Without even realizing it, I have been working on and with mindset for years.

Always fascinated by why we do or think certain things and why animals don’t act in the same way.

As a child I was fixated by the language and behaviors of others, often wondering why from my bedroom window I could see children as young as five smoking cigarettes they had stolen from family members. Why some of the kids I went to school with chose a path of crime, and why I wanted to achieve as much as I could in my career.

As a teenager I was fascinated with television programs and books about serial killers, not so much the crimes, but why they would have done what they did in the first place and why they were different from most of society. The views ...

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