阅读教程 基础篇2 第四版 教参Unit3 T Attitude Towards Work.docVIP

PAGE PAGE 6 Unit 3 工作态度 I. Related Background I 1. The Power of Personal Attitudes Each of us is made up of various physical, vital, and mental parts. There is our physical body and its organs, muscles, etc; the vital being with its sensations, emotions and feelings, and the mental part with its thoughts, memories, reasoning power, beliefs, etc. Somewhere between our emotions and our thought processing lies our attitudes—our emotional perceptions about life, about others, even towards our own selves. Attitudes generally express positively and negatively. E.g. when I have good feelings towards my work or towards others, the attitude is positive. When I feel reluctant to do certain things that are necessary, or show hostility towards certain individuals, then my attitude is negative. Interestingly, if we can identify a bad attitude and make the effort to change it, we will find that life will cooperate with our inner efforts, bringing us instances of sudden good fortune. Consider this true-life incident. A salesperson was intimidated about meeting a very large customer. He felt that the effort was a waste of time since the company was too large and would be too hard to penetrate. Needless to say, he did not get that or any other sale with the client. However, a number of months later, he changed his attitude about working with such large accounts. The very next day, he was stunned when that very same large customer, who turned him down earlier, gave him a huge order! As we can see, if we change our attitudes, life has a funny way of responding to our efforts. We call this phenomenon “life response.” When we change our attitudes, or otherwise elevate our consciousness, life quickly responds thereafter with miraculous-like instances of good fortune. 2. Attitudes About Ourselves, Others, Life Though we have many attitudes about all aspects of life, if we look a little closer we can identify three basic types—those that have to do with ourselves, those we have about