How many times in grade school did you hear a teacher, administrator or whoever say something along the lines of “a good attitude is the key to success,” or “not with that attitude?” or some variation. It occurs to me that your attitude is a symptom, a derivative feature, of your inner existence, like a fever and cough is a symptom of a cold. Whether you have a serious issue in your life, from home problems to depression, anxiety, etc., or not, you’re attitude is your own personality filtered through that lived experience or hardship, a change in attitude is a symptom of that stress. It would be like a cancer patient asking if the doctor thinks they’ll live and hearing “not with a white blood cell count like that!”
This is just a stray train of thought, what do you guys think?
Well, realistically the right attitude to ‘get ahead’ in the world is to fuck over and exploit everyone for your own personal gain.
A strong work ethic definitely helps though. I got outshone by a lot of hard workers who were realistically not as smart as me for a long time because I’d sit on my ass jacking off while they prepped for exams.
