Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

by Scott Adams

When you combine a human brain that is wired to notice problems with a press that is incentivized to present stories involving huge problems, you can easily start imagining that the world is falling apart in a variety of fatal ways.

If you find yourself obsessing over the accuracy of facts versus the direction those facts will lead you, you might be in a mental prison.

This sums up loserthink.

Testing small and tracking results is a system.

Could this apply to enrollment and retention in academia?

If you find yourself believing that several million people in your own country share a common set of despicable traits, despite overwhelming evidence to the contrary, you might be engaging in loserthink that will make you less happy and less effective.

Too many are doing exactly this.

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 start to think like a winner, you are on the way to being one.

Luck is attracted to action and energy; it doesn’t come looking for you on the couch.

Action begats enthusiasm.