"thinking process" ; University of Virginia Supp; Favorite word and why?

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We come across this word in all walks of life and we've been doing this ever since our years of innocence in a vast number of contexts. We realize that this word is not just a reflection of posture, movement or pretense , it is in fact a "thinking process" which constitutes the beginning of any action. This thinking process constitutes the most trivial aspects of our decision making and also brings a swathe of positivity in the course of action. The word is attitude. My father always told me that although hard work and perseverance were important factors in achieving an objective, the key however was always a positive attitude. He always used to end his lecture with a quirky fact which solidified the words impact, that when each number representing the letter is added, it sums up to a 100. "Hard work, perseverance would never amount to a 100%" he says. But your attitude does. Although this fact doesn't prove much, it does make a person think about whether the solution to any kind of problem would be a change in their thought process, their attitude. I can say this with experience as I used to encounter various problems and I could never solve those them. The negative in the problems then surprisingly changed to positive as fast as my attitude did and this made me realize the sheer intensity, the power of this word.

I thought this was rather uninteresting. It was rather predictable from the start in my opinion. Perhaps a more creative approach could be used?