Attitude is everything these days, even pre-screening hiring and employment interview processes have assessments and scenarios built in to see how potential hires will handle, interact, problem-solve, what their attitude is, positive, negative, ambivalent, undecided, purposeful etc. in some Buddhist teachings the source of all happiness if by having a positive outlook on life If you are mainly positive, you are less likely to suffer or experience even hardship as negative, rather character building. Values like empathy, compassion and gratitude come from a place where you feel you can freely give, share, acknowledge and so on. You too can be happier, more resilient, and less depressed.

The latest self-help craze, fad, can be summarized as waking up, going to work expecting the best, something positive and in all likelihood it will happen. When it comes to the literal root meaning and etymology of the word, It claws back to the French, from Italian attitudine, from Late Latin aptit d , aptit din-, faculty ; see aptitude, hinting to frame of mind affecting one's thoughts or behavior: outlook, position, posture, stance. Having a good or positive attitude could mean that the following are present in your thoughts, words, action, outlook on life, what others might say of you, or how you would characterize yourself if asked about it:

- amiability
- benevolence
- confidence
- consideration
- gallantry
- gravity
- modesty

Versus the flip-side of the coin and negative attitude which would involve things like:

- arrogance
- condescension
- cruelty
- cynic
- detachment
- impudence
- malevolence
- snob

When these aspects and qualities are compared, contrasted and positioned in this fashion, it is easy to see how positive attitude will be more enabling and negative attitude more destructive potentially. There is always of course neutrality and/or ambivalence which is another kettle of fish entirely and representative of what many of us experience as our own self-discovery continues. Whether you read into this your state of mind, manner of carrying yourself, a disposition, orientation, opinion, towards something, somebody or an event, mental training, self-hypnosis, positive mantras and affirmations, motivational self-help type advice abounds in the marketplace, to get you started on this path. It all starts with getting out of bed and being deliberately more positive it seems to attract the best and positive things in life towards you, into reality and enjoy the fruits of your labor. (at least according to Oprah and the author of The Secret).