Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life: How to Unlock Your Full Potential for Success and Achievement

POSITIVE VERSUS 
NEGATIVE WORLDVIEWS
There are two basic ways of looking at your world. You can have a
positive and 
benevolent
worldview or a negative and 
malevolent
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worldview. By taking responsibility for yourself and what happens
to you, you become positive. You see the world in benevolent
terms.You become more optimistic toward yourself and your possi-
bilities.You become a happier and more effective person.
In contrast, when you take a negative or malevolent worldview,
you see problems and injustice everywhere. You see oppression and
evil. You see guilty people all around you. You see limitations and
unfairness rather than opportunity and hope. Worst of all, you
spend your time apportioning blame to various people and institu-
tions for all the problems you see.
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