A PMA allows you to see problems as opportunities for success.

A PMA allows you to see problems as opportunities for success.

Success is all about confronting and solving problems. Just think of history’s greatest minds and business moguls: behind every great invention or innovation was a problem that someone faced and tried to solve.
It’s precisely our mental attitude that dictates how we handle problems. When you encounter a challenge, do you resign yourself to failure and throw your hands up, or do you find the positive in the problem and take it upon yourself to fix it?
Obviously, those who succeed adopt a PMA and therefore take the more productive approach.
Conversely, those with a NMA will fall short of their goals, as they admit defeat at the first sign of trouble – when their prototype fails, for example, or when a potential investor turns them down.
People who care about developing their PMA see setbacks as a challenge to be taken. So, instead of giving up, they try harder. This reaction is known as inspirational dissatisfaction, and those who have it use it to rise above even the most desperate and hopeless situations.
Even serving time can be a positive opportunity, as a man named Charlie Ward taught us. During his time in prison, Ward was able to change his NMA to a PMA. This shift won him the respect of both inmates and prison guards, and he moved up in the prison hierarchy. During this time, he met the industrialist Herbert Bigelow, who was serving time for tax fraud. Bigelow was so impressed by Ward that he promised him a decent job after he was released. Sure enough, when Ward was released, he got that job. Furthermore, after Bigelow died, Ward became CEO of the company and died a millionaire.
So literally any problem, whether professional or personal, can be conquered with a PMA.

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By Napoleon hill