Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

by Scott Adams

You can figure out which group you are in by asking yourself what is keeping you from achieving your objectives in life. Is the first answer that comes to mind something about your own efforts? Or did you immediately think about an obstacle that life has put in your way? If you take full responsibility for your outcomes, even while knowing much of it depends on luck, that’s how rich people think. If you blame something beyond your direct control, you’re probably engaged in loserthink, and your outcomes will reflect it. Now let me talk directly to the people who would like to be successful in life but are “thinking like poor people.” And by that I mean you believe you are not the primary authors of your own life experience. The place to start is by changing that mindset. If you don’t fix that first, don’t expect anything else to work out for you. I think nearly every successful person would agree with me on this point: get your mind right first. Everything else depends on that.