Attitude, in reality, is your true identity. But your misconception is that your talent and capabilities makes the world recognises you. Your success or failure depends on your efforts, actions as well as your attitude i.e. how you look at the world around you, and how you look at yourself.
Attitude is not the mask you wear to show people that you are kind, nice and responsible; it is in fact your internal behaviour. Attitude displays the core of you, your feelings, thoughts and emotions that linger within you and hidden from the external world.
Your attitude and understanding are hidden from everybody, and in their hide they are hard to manage and control. The world can only see the output of your attitude which largely relies on the ability of your managing skill. The output is commonly known as behaviour. Most of you try to change your behaviour, but it is very hard to try for it without changing the attitude.
Again, change in behaviour is also a change in response to the environment around you. Change in attitude requires the fundamental change in you. For instance, if you find it difficult to interact with yourself because of your seriousness much beyond normal extent, addition of smile more often during your conversations is a behavioural change. When you search within you the reason of your serious behaviour, change your prospect of people to perfectly connect with them better. It is called shift in attitude.
Change in behaviour is easier than change in attitude. The change in attitude calls for conscious and constant effort over a period of time to look within, review and evaluate your activities as well as yourself critically.
Despite your expected behaviour, be it in a casual conversation or a formal interview people will recognise the flaw in your attitude. In fact, most behavioural evaluations deal with your attitude not your behaviour and this is why lots of you fail and fail even to recognise the real reason of your failure. You might have conversed well, or answered perfectly in the interview, or even prepared yourself precisely for the oncoming challenge, but could have done nothing about your attitude, the most important thing that matters.
You test your attitude in your solitary existence, but in presence of people your behaviour is tested. Again, your attitude displays your behaviour. So, observe yourself and your thoughts, feelings and emotions closely from the bottom of your heart when you are alone. Try to discover the ways you think and act in your vision. If something seems unjust about you and the way you are looking at things fundamentally, change and continue to work at it until it becomes your natural habit. Remember, you are not your behaviour, you are your attitude. Above all, your attitude is your identity as well as your humanity.