The 50th Law (with 50 Cent)

particularly in a nonverbal way. Do you catch them being nervous or
defensive in your presence? Do you tend to attract people who play the
mother or father role in your life?

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Once you have a good feel for the makeup of your own attitude, its
negative or positive bent, you have much greater power to alter it, to
move it more in the positive direction.
Second, you must not only be aware of the role of your attitude but
also believe in its supreme power to alter your circumstances. You are
not a pawn in a game controlled by others; you are an active player
who can move the pieces at will and even rewrite the rules. View your
health as largely dependent on your attitude. Feeling excited and open
to adventure, you can tap into energy reserves you did not know that
you had. The mind and the body are one, and your thoughts affect your
physical responses. People can recover much more quickly from illness
through sheer desire and willpower. You are not born with fixed
intelligence and inherent limits. See your brain as a miraculous organ
designed for continual learning and improvement, well into old age.
The rich neural connections in your brain, your creative powers, are
something you develop to the degree that you open yourself up to new
experiences and ideas. View problems and failures as means to learn
and toughen yourself up. You can get through anything with
persistence. View the way people treat you as largely flowing from your
own attitude, something you can control.
Do not be afraid to exaggerate the role of willpower. It is an
exaggeration with a purpose. It leads to a positive self-fulfilling
dynamic, and that is all you care about. See this shaping of your
attitude as your most important creation in life, and never leave it to
chance.
The Constricted (Negative) Attitude
Life is inherently chaotic and unpredictable. The human animal,
however, does not react well to uncertainty. People who feel