If you go on stage with the wrong attitude, or something in your performance is off, you can lose an audience in the first minute. That first minute is crucial.
Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
So long as you've got your friends about you, and a good positive attitude, you don't really have to care what everyone else thinks.
My attitude is that if you push me towards something that you think is a weakness, then I will turn that perceived weakness into a strength.
When you are thwarted, it is your own attitude that is out of order.
your own attitude, order, thwarted