As professionals in the real estate markets, we have worked with thousands of real estate investors and businesspeople, and we know that there is something different about the mindsets of successful individuals. They approach life with a certain set of assumptions, enabling them to apply analytical strategies to their decision-making and, as a result, create positive professional and personal lives. Why is having the right mindset important? Investors the world over are reeling from the effects of the Great Recession. Those effects have, of course, been felt fi nancially, but there are deep psychological scars as well, which have shaken investor confi dence. Getting that mindset back, the inner game.