"One of the biggest things I learned from my grandfather was his little saying, which was PMA: positive mental attitude. So in any scenario, you try to have a positive outlook regardless of the current circumstances. That sounds kind of woo-wooy sometimes, or “always think positive” or whatever, but I have tried to become better at practicing it and teaching my kids how to practice it. One way that you can do it is when you run up against something that feels kind of difficult or feels like you don’t feel confident about it, you try to rehearse it visually and you emphasize the good portions of what could happen. And this can happen either in retrospect or pre-visualization before the thing happens." James Clear on The Knowledge Project