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Water essentially has no persona of ____ own, but has an extraordinary quality.

Water as a ____ has no shape, yet it is readily defined by its surroundings.

Water has no hardness; it is completely yielding to the touch, yet is hard as concrete ____ impacted at high speed.

Water has no ____ when viewed in a transparent container, yet becomes vividly green or blue as an ocean, and readily reflects at its surface everything around it.

Pure water has no taste, ____ it readily absorbs and transmits the taste of any suspended or dissolved substances.

It has no smell, yet, as ____ humidity, readily distributes the aromas of its surroundings.

This ubiquitous part of our environment truly has a variable ____ readily changing to assimilate its surroundings.

I suppose everyone ____ at one time or another drawn a mental map, and it offers little conceptual difficulty.

In my classes, I ask students to draw a map by ____ in just five minutes, showing their route to and from class.

No ____ maps are ever entirely the same, of course, and none are to scale.

Nevertheless, ____ of the maps are easily understood.

This shows that while we all produce our own versions of spatial reality, we ____ see particular landmarks that communicate to all of us in a social community.

Mental maps tend to highlight important parts of a route, with streets labelled to indicate ____ to turn.

Such maps tend to include informal but understood cultural ____

Where a professionally made street map might give you numbered addresses, a mental map is more likely to describe a route by referencing visible features like “a giant blue gorilla” outside ____ car dealership or “that old pink Victorian house.”

People ____ to pay less attention to familiar things, whether it’s a possession or even a person.

On the whole, this adaptive behavior ____ biologically useful (for objects, events, and situations), because it is usually the novel, unexpected things in life that require the most attention.

The brain ____ adapts to repeated experiences.

If I were to ____ you a series of repeated images and measure your brain responses, the activity would diminish with the repetitions.

____ brain would respond again only when something new was presented.

Scientists have shown that the biggest responses always come with the least expected ____

____ simple sentence such as, “He picked up the hammer and nail” gives a tiny response; change the last few words, “He picked up the hammer and ate it,” and you’ll see a much larger one.

In one experiment, Keith Markman and two colleagues gave participants ____ to solve.

____ supposedly “grading” the results, they told participants that they’d found only half of the available words.

Then they poked ____ with a little regret.

“Close your eyes and think about ____ actual performance on the anagrams compared to how you might have performed better,” they told the participants.

“Take a minute and vividly evaluate your performance in comparison to how you might have performed ____

Their heads now swimming with ____ Onlys, these puzzle solvers felt worse ― especially compared to another group that had been asked to make At Least comparisons.

But on the next round, the regretful group solved more puzzles and stuck with the task ____ than anyone else in the experiment.

This is one of the central findings on regret: it can deepen persistence, ____ almost always elevates performance.