Attitudes Of Mind

There was a man who made his living selling balloons at a fair.He had balloons of many different colors, including red, yellow, blue, green and purple.

Fabia Islam Jahin
Top Science news
2 min readJun 19, 2020

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Balloon seller

Whenever business was slow, he would release a helium-filled balloon into the air. When the children saw the balloon go up, they all wanted one. They would come up to him, buy a balloon and his sales would go up. All day, he continued to release a balloon the sales slowed down.One day,the balloon man felt someone tugging at his jacket.He turned around and a little boy asked “if you release a black balloon , would that also fly?” Moved by the boy’s concern, the man replied gently “Son, it is not the color of the balloon, it is what’s inside that makes it go up.”

[ Balloon seller sells the balloons to the baby ]

The same principle applies to our lives: it’s what’s inside that counts. And what’s inside of us that makes us go up is our attitude. William James of Harvard University said, “The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.”

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Fabia Islam Jahin
Top Science news

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