I was inspired my Maxwell's book I read lately with the title stated above. He argues that just attitude will not be enought to make you survive. What needed most is not only the right attitude, yet the attitude itself is the product of your life's history. The attitude is marked in you as the result of anything that formed you in your past. Its an interesting book to read. A much more lighter then many books written by the same author about leadership. One comment: in some parts I found at least 10 parts where the translation is not quite clear and kind of messy. I do hope that in the second edition some editing will be needed to the book.
Take this interesting point. Ten percent of your daily life is influenced by how you react on something that happen (external factors) to you, and 90 percent is determined by your attitude to handle it (internal). Take for example: in a traffic condition; you know that you cannot change it but the most important is how do you behave whenever you are trapped in such situation. Will you keep on blow the horn, will you grumbling at yourself, will you get mad at the other people who caused the traffic jam, or will you sit still and enjoy the moment and think of something more important that the traffic?
The choice is yours. Will you like the 10% external factor to ruin your day or allow your 90% part to control yourself?
