The Attitude Factor

The book explores the impact of childhood mental habits on happiness and health in later life. It presents the mind as a self-organizing system and emphasizes the importance of reorganizing "critical moments" to foster healthier attitudes. Including attitude tests conducted on three thousand elderly individuals in 1973, the findings reveal a significant correlation between test scores and well-being after 21 years. Those with the highest scores were found to be 30 times more likely to be alive and healthy compared to those with the lowest scores.