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Polluted Mindset 

Something that works it's way into your head and creates a false sense of security. Spending time worrying about things that could potentially keep you from reaching your goals.

Mike McCarthy, Head coach of the Green Bay Packers seemingly coined this phrase on 12/30/2010 when asked if his team would have a tendency to let down if the Bears decided to rest their players in the season finale vs. the Packers. He answered the question with ... "That's a "polluted mindset".
When you worry about whether the Chicago Bears will rest their starters in the season finale you run the risk of creating a "polluted mindset" among your team.

When you let a lot of outside influences enter your way of thinking it can create a "polluted mindset". Our football team is very excited to play. It's important for us to clearly stay focused on winning and playing the best that we possibly can for the whole game. It's as simple as that."
Polluted Mindset by The Family Ghost December 31, 2010
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mindscape 

1. The landscape of thoughs, a reification of the domain of imaginary entities, memories, feelings, ideas, fears or any other object in the mind, seen together as making up metaphoric features: forests, jungles, deserts, rivers, valleys, cloudy mountains, etc.

2. To mindscape: as to landscape, the careful trimming/shaping of ideas, memories, or other mental objects, as when "mowing the lawn", "planting bushes", and/or maintenance on existing features in the mental world.
Marcel Proust strolled in his mindscapes, to bring us his books "In Search of Lost Time".
mindscape by Jorge Marquez August 4, 2007

criminal minds

one of the best shows out there. it's creepy as shit and will make you crap yourself and have nightmares for weeks, but it's totally worth it. the fans are batshit crazy, they're worth dating but keep in mind they know how to torture and kill you in more ways than you can imagine. this show is not for the light of heart.
person 1: i watched criminal minds last night and holy shit !!
person 2: jEsUS CHRIST MAN R U OKAY??
criminal minds by toyotatommo February 5, 2017

hearts and minds 

The strategy in guerilla war of winning the support of the resident population by building schools and hospitals instead of conquering by brute force.
In reference to a particularly difficult city in Iraq,"It's a very primal fight," Colonel Davis said. "We don't do a lot of hearts and minds out here because it's irrelevant." (NY Times, 11/6/2005)
hearts and minds by John Heron November 6, 2005

Kwan mindset 

"To become rich, you must first exploit the poor." The mantra of top osu! player Ryan Kwan, a.k.a. RyuK.
I was hardstuck for fucking ages, but once I adopted the Kwan mindset nothing could stop my improvement.
Kwan mindset by 727whenyouReadIt December 18, 2021

Cheems Mindset

Cheems mindset is the reflexive belief that barriers to policy outcomes are natural laws that we should not waste our time considering how to overcome. The term can also be applied to the same "can't do" attitude in non-policy contexts, including business and science.

The term was coined by Jeremy Driver for his newsletter, Normielisation.
He displayed cheems mindset when he said there wouldn't be vaccines for another five years.
Cheems Mindset by minionman May 30, 2021