Attitude, like all expressions of intellect and emotion, is a conditioned response.  There is the cause and its effect.  There is the primary and its secondary.  Attitude does not/cannot exist without that which manifests it.   The stimulus-response dynamic is alive in all things, including the golf swing.

Now, the discussion of the golf swing does not abridge or negate the realization of a basic human truth.  Because truth comes first.  However our attitude, based on our life experience, sometimes colors that truth to fit our own narrative.  If our narrative cooperates with the bigger story, our reward is being labeled as having a ‘good attitude’.  Our opposite getsbthe label of ‘bad attitude’.

The qualifier is not the individual, unfortunately, but rather the story to which we respond as unique individuals.  If the story is idealistic, the idealist has the good attitude and the confused has the bad.  If the story is confused, the opposite is the case.  It has to do, I think, with setting aside our ego so the truth exists as it is and not as we want it to be.

The truth affects us. We color it with an attitude conditioned by experience.  Then we express it.  Attitude is essentially a descendant of the conditioning of luck.  Life experience, as an attitude adjuster, has many tumblers.  However, Luck is the only one of those tumblers outside of the soul and beyond the control of the human being.  We know it exists, but have been conditioned by a confused story to ignore its impact in our lives and in our world.

I’ve written a book about Luck, which is a humble and, I fear, too brief look into what makes miracles, heroes, villains, and stars. Opportunities seem to lay down like lovers for otherwise ordinary people who do nothing more than what comes naturally – based on their experience.  Sorry… their attitude.  This is, to say the least, an off-topic post.  Take it for what it’s worth.

John Wright – Founder
The Open Stance Academy