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Your attitude is what drives the organizational experience. MIT's attitude is revealed through these "tricks". They're not giving away freebies to win people over; they're building an environment where you can focus all your time and energy on your work.

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> MIT's attitude is revealed through these "tricks".

Precisely.

MIT's behavior is the projection of its attitude. Through inertia, MIT aligns its participants' attitudes to various approximations of the overall attitude.

Or, the overall attitude is the reduction of the participants' attitudes.

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