By: Tarun Prakash Srivastava, Sr. Executive Editor-ICN Group
Our attitudes and views are the physical consequences of our personal information, experiences, prior beliefs and prejudices. The credibility of our information affects our attitudes.
Let’s try this:
Groups of Positive and Negative Thinking
| Positive Category | Negative Category | |
| Love | Hate | |
| Excitement | Laziness | |
| Vision (Far sight) | Lack of vision (Farsight) | |
| Selection of positive element | Selection of negative element | |
| Patience | Impatience | |
| Help and co-operation | Non-cooperation | |
| Courtesy and delicacy | Indecency | |
| Self-esteem and respect for others | Low self-image and insult of others | |
| Self-confidence and confidence in others | Lack of confidence and, mutual trust | |
| Do not give up | Give up easily | |
| Learning | Avoid the learning | |
| Leadership | Negligence | |
| Ready for modification | Avoid modification | |
| Establish new goals | Aimless | |
| Diversity | Monotony | |
| Simplicity, Purity and, Excellence | Complexity, profanity and dishonesty | |
| Make friends | Enmity | |
| Thanks and praise | Criticism and jealousy | |
| God loving | God fearing |
There will be many other thoughts, ideas, qualities or attributes which are not visible in this list but when the formula to identify them is handed over to you, you can manually add many such features to your list from time to time.
There are only two families or groups of thoughts – (1) Positive Thoughts and (2) Negative Thoughts. Sometimes the mixed thoughts arise but even from the mixture of these two, the result shall be tilted towards the more influential thought only, but this result shall be limited because of the less influential thought also. In other words, the limited results of the mixed thoughts shall be seen in the direction towards more effective though only.
Only thoughts are not enough in themselves. Every thought is like news printed in a newspaper which gives information only but does not influence you. You are always influenced by your own attitudes. What are the attitudes? Let’s understand –
Equation of Attitude
| Thoughts | + | Strong spirit prevailed with your personal experiences, information, preconceptions and, prejudices | = | Attitude |
Our attitudes and views are the physical consequences of our personal information, experiences, prior beliefs and prejudices. The credibility of our information affects our attitudes. We always believe that all of the information available to us is completely true and for this reason, often false or incomplete information affects our attitudes. It is very necessary to mention a story here which you may have read in your childhood. A woman had a newborn baby, and that woman kept a mongoose in her house. She used to love that baby very much, and when the woman used to go to the waterfall of the village to bring water to her home, the mongoose used to take care of the safety of that child. One day when the woman came back to her house with her pitcher filled with water, she found the mongoose on the doorstep of her house and seeing the blood on mongoose’s mouth, the woman jumped on the result that the mongoose had killed the newborn in her absence.
Filled with anger and sorrow, the woman took a vase filled with water and pushed it on the mongoose, and it crushed mongoose to death. When the mourning woman reached inside the house, she found that her newborn was happily safe, while a snake was lying there injured and dead. Then the woman came to know that the mongoose did not injure her child but had protected her from snake and was waiting for her on the threshold to give the news of fulfilling its responsibility. The woman was left with a lot of sadness and repentance only.
Tarun Prakash Srivastava
The writer is the author of book ‘Science of Money’ available on Amazon.com in English at http://bit.ly/Science-Of-Money
