"The way you look at your reality can greatly impact your success, "We focus so much on what's not done that we can miss the lessons of what really works extremely well,"
"Put another way: Instead of fretting about failures, draw momentum from your successes.
Laser beam pokes a hole on a thick plate, due to persistence digging on one spot. Bill Gates, eye on success tactics and keep going with such tactics.
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It's easy and natural to focus on what's not going well.
"It's human nature to zero in on threats: evolution wired us to worry about the animals that want to eat us," Gates wrote in a column in Time magazine about his optimism in January.
Also, humans are increasingly impatient with problems.
Importantly, focusing on what is working does not mean you pretend everything is perfect, of course.
"I'm not trying to downplay the work that remains. Being an optimist doesn't mean you ignore tragedy and injustice," Gates writes in Time.
Instead, use your critical thinking to understand what is working, notice that and figure out how you can improve and accelerate the success.
Being an optimist, he told Time, "means you're inspired to look for people making progress on those fronts, and to help spread that progress more widely."
Bill Gates has a brilliant but simple strategy for success
