Our attitudes play a significant role in how we perceive and interact with the world. By actively working to shift our attitudes towards a more positive and growth-oriented mindset, we can improve our chances of success and happiness in all areas of our lives. Attitudes are shaped by our past experiences and the stories we tell ourselves about those experiences. While you can expand your mindset and beliefs, if you don’t rewrite your past and create new meaning of past experiences, you’ll respond as the person you were, instead of the person you are. 

When you change your attitude you surrender and let go of your past trauma. If you’re pulling a wagon full of trauma around with you, you won’t get very far into the future. You can surrender and accept the volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity you encounter. Through this, you will become resilient, and adaptable. In digitizing the model, companies like Kodak, Blockbuster, and newspapers refused to surrender and found themselves disrupted. To disrupt yourself, rewrite your past into a new narrative. Create new meaning from your trauma. Be grateful for what you learned and how you got here—you’re exactly where you need to be.