"I love really weird. I learned this from the giant Yock Punksep, no longer alive," he says. "If you stick an electrode in a certain spot in a cat's brainstem, it will go into a rage ... It just wants to get it." A pursuit mindset is one that allows for fieryness and intensity but doesn't have negative affect woven into it. You don't hate the target. And distinguishing that from anger and hatred can be tricky because words are nuanced and complicated.

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