Your position in life will always determine your perspective. When I was younger, I was terrified to return something to a store. Rather than deal with that interaction, I would accept my losses and either keep the item or give it away. It felt embarrassing to me to tell the store that I purchased s...

To understand why people might have drastically different outlooks on life than we do, think of a kaleidoscope– we might have the same pieces, but the arrangement is different for each person, and therefore we see a different picture from one another. It’s not that we intentionally have varied persp...