[Caursedus]

It's much easier to fail than to succeed at just about anything...except maybe breathing. So if you think you are going to fail you probably will many more times than if you went into the same situations with non failing thought process.

Now for me I am pretty much the type of guy who goes into just about any thing with a "let's give it a try and see what happens. Good bad, or indifference, let's see how it goes". (I am most definitely like this when playing golf) That is everything except casino gambling. Even though I live in Vegas, I do not gamble, except to bet on some NFL games, and play in some live poker games. Now, my wife on the other hand gambles, and wins because she figures she is going to win. She has a positive thought process about video gambling machines. Plus, she can shoot craps with the best of them. Picture a little 4'9" woman standing with the big boys throwing dice. My "negative" reasoning is if she is the winning gambler in the family, then I would be the gambling loser of the two of us. I have to rely on just pure luck to win. A hole in one is pretty much pure luck. So I don't gamble per se. Maybe a few quarters here, and there, but that's about it.

Now I do play with money in the form of investments, and such. It's just another type of gambling, but I know I am good at it, because I have a lot more control than if I were in a casino some where, bucking their odds. I have a very positive thought process with my investments.

When car buying, the dealership loves me. I figure no matter what I do, I am going to get screwed anyway. Part of it is because I don't have a very high opinion of those car salesman to begin with. So I go into this adventure with a negative attitude, and wind up paying more than I probably should for the vehicle. It's a "I want that one, here's the money, give me the keys, see you later" kind of deal with me.

So I suppose I have both positive, and negative thought processes that I draw on from time to time.