When you THROW DIRT at people, you're not doing a thing but LOSING GROUND.
I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
Life is a classroom -- only those who are willing to be lifelong learners will move to the head of the class.
Success is a personal standard, reaching for the highest that is in us, becoming all that we can be.
Desire is the great equalizer.
If you want to catch the right mental attitude, go where that attitude exists. Start by going to the people who have the right mental attitude. If the right people aren't always available, then go the right book, or to the right recording of a dynamic speaker.