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Mindset Matters
I try to be in a growth mindset, but I wonder …
—Bus Driver
Mind is to brain as walking is to legs—only a billion times more complex! The various functions of mind (thinking, feeling, acting, learning, remembering, and creating) are a set of processes carried out by the brain (90). The brain makes us who we are, producing every emotion and intellectual act. The brain therefore, determines our moods, endowing us with the capability for great joy, and when circumstances change allowing us to experience terrible misery. Mind is a person’s intellect—a facility that enables awareness of our world, including possessions and obsessions we experience in it. Mind, as the faculty of consciousness and thought, enables us to think ...
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