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

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

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

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

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

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

I suppose everyone has ____ 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 hand, in just five minutes, ____ their route to and from class.

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

Nevertheless, most of ____ 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, ____ streets labelled to indicate where to turn.

Such maps tend to include informal ____ understood cultural references.

Where ____ 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 a car dealership or “that old pink Victorian house.”

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

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

____ brain naturally adapts to repeated experiences.

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

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

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

A simple sentence such as, “He picked ____ 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.

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

Then they poked people with ____ little regret.

“Close your eyes and think about your ____ 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 ____ performed better.”

Their heads now swimming with If Onlys, these puzzle solvers felt worse ― especially ____ 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 longer than anyone else ____ the experiment.

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