It’s been said countless ways that attitude makes a difference. You may have heard it expressed, ‘The difference is attitude.’ True enough and if we agree its true isn’t it necessary to explain something of the how and why. And it’s not particularly hard to explain.
All activities whether it’s a job skill or improving a talent in music, whether it is singing or playing an instrument include effort, difficulty and frustration. For someone who loves, say the violin, the frustration is expected, comes with the territory and is recognized as an inevitable obstacle and challenge. For someone who is just forcing themselves to go through the motions the effort and headaches will soon seem greater than the reward.
Even some measure of achievement will not seem like success because the frustration will still outweigh the cost in this case. For the true musician the greater the challenge, the greater the perceived benefit and the greater the pleasure in the reward of a perfect performance. So the musician is encouraged many times over, while the casual student gets little if any re-enforcement and will soon conclude the pain is not worth the little pleasure. It’s not hard to see who finds success and who finds failure and how ATTITUDE makes a difference. Hopefully now you see a little more clearly
how and why.
Again this many seem so straight-forward that it is obvious but I want to add an additional point that can be easy to miss. Sure a bad attitude counts as ZERO, but there’s a lot going on between 0 and 100 percent. Maybe you bring a poor attitude of 18% to your endeavors. Can you see how you can greatly diminish your results without killing your efforts all together? Life is a multiplication problem.
So keep track of your attitude. After all there’s no rule I know of that keeps you from trying to improve your attitude to 200 or 300%. Hey, it’s your attitude, you can do what you want with it and the higher the number the more everybody benefits!
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