Those with a glass half-full mentality may harbour hopes a new man atop European football with an avowed mission to level the playing field could be a positive force.
He said that a "glass half-full" mentality is best; otherwise it is hard to be happy.
I clearly inherited their glass-half-full mentality and always manage to see and extract the good in any situation - ¬even a challenging one.
Giving the first clues in weeks about his brother's health, Raúl Castro, 76, said in a speech on Monday in Santiago de Cuba that Fidel Castro, 81, has a "healthier mentality, full use of his mental faculties with some small physical limitations".
This is a very glass-half-full type of mentality".
The herd mentality is in full force, and it is not just in the retail sector.
In contrast, at Meetup.com, the eight-month-old business in New York where he is now vice president for finance and administration, the bootstrap mentality is at full tilt.
"They give full play to the enchanted mentality, which holds the world to be inhabited with ghosts and spirits," explains Paul Gifford, a professor of African Christianity at the University of London.
As part of his 100 hours of community service, he lectured rooms full of cops about "hacker mentality".
