style.” The way you interpret things is a key part of changing your thinking. The question is always whether you interpret things that are happening around you in a positive or negative way. Remember, the optimist sees the glass as half full while the pessimist sees the glass as half empty. Choose to be an optimist. ■ BECOME AN INVERSE PARANOID The multimillionaire W. Clement Stone started off selling newspa- pers on the streets of Chicago at the age of 12. He went on to build Combined Insurance Company of America, and died recently at the age of 100 worth more than $800 million. He was a great inspira- tion to thousands of people, and was famous for his habit of being an “inverse paranoid.” A paranoid is someone who believes that people are conspiring
I clicked on the first link and found myself landing on a gossip blog. There, in living color, was a photo of Gideon kissing me senseless on the sidewalk outside of his gym. The accompanying article was short and to the point: "Gideon Cross, New York's most eligible bachelor since John F. Kennedy Jr., was spotted yesterday in a passionate public embrace. A source at Cross Industries identified the lucky mystery woman as socialite Eva Tramell, daughter of multimillionaire Richard Stanton and his wife, Monica. When queried about the nature of the relationship between Cross and Tramell, the source confirmed that Miss Tramell is `the significant woman' in the mogul's life at present. We imagine hearts are breaking across the country this morning." "Oh, crap," I breathed. 11 I quickly clicked through other links in the digest to find the same picture with similar captions and articles