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

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

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

Water has no color when viewed in ____ 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, yet it readily absorbs and transmits the taste of any suspended ____ dissolved substances.

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

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

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

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

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

Nevertheless, most of the ____ are easily understood.

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

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

Such maps tend to include informal ____ understood cultural references.

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

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

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

The ____ naturally adapts to repeated experiences.

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

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

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

A ____ 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.

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

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

Then they poked people with a little ____

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

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

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

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

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