The 50th Law (with 50 Cent)

The Expansive (Positive) Attitude
Some fifty years ago, many medical experts began to think of health in
a new and revolutionary way. Instead of focusing on specific problems,
such as digestion or skin ailments or the condition of the heart, they
decided it was much better to look at the human body as a whole. If
people improved their diet and their exercise habits, this would have a
beneficial effect on all of the organs, because the body is an
interconnected whole.
This seems obvious to us now, but such an organic way of thinking
has great application to our psychological health as well. Now more
than ever people focus on their specific problems—their depression,
their lack of motivation, their social inadequacies, their boredom. But
what governs all of these seemingly separate problems is our attitude,
how we view the world on a daily basis. It is how we see and interpret
events. Improve the overall attitude and everything else will elevate as
well—creative powers, the ability to handle stress, confidence levels,
relationships with people. It was an idea first promulgated in the 1890s
by the great American psychologist William James, but it remains a
revolution waiting to happen.
A negative, constricting attitude is designed to narrow down the
richness of life at the cost of our creative powers, our sense of
fulfillment, our social pleasures, and our vital energies. Without
wasting another day under such conditions, your goal is to break out,
to expand what you see and what you experience. You want to open the
aperture of the lens as wide as you can. Here is your road map.
How to view the world: See yourself as an explorer. With the gift
of consciousness, you stand before a vast and unknown universe that

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we humans have just begun to investigate. Most people prefer to cling
to certain ideas and principles, many of them adopted early on in life.
They are secretly afraid of what is unfamiliar and uncertain. They
replace curiosity with conviction. By the time they are thirty, they act
as if they know everything they need to know.
As an explorer you leave all that certainty behind you. You are in
continual search of new ideas and new ways of thinking. You see no
limits to where your mind can roam, and you are not concerned with
suddenly appearing inconsistent or developing ideas that directly
contradict what you believed a few months before. Ideas are things to
play with. If you hold on to them for too long, they become something
dead. You are returning to your childlike spirit and curiosity, from
before you had an ego and being right was more important than
connecting to the world. You explore all forms of knowledge, from all
cultures and time periods. You want to be challenged.
By opening the mind in this way, you will unleash unrealized
creative powers, and you will give yourself great mental pleasure. As