It's the negative winning out over the positive. If you genuinely want things to get better you have to stop thinking about how they won't. If you can't, you'r

It's the negative winning out over the positive. If you genuinely want things to get better you have to stop thinking about how they won't. If you can't, you're part of the reason why things won't improve. You want your negativity (or your ego) to be proven right.