I am an individual who tends to eschew tooting my own horn, and I also am of the slow-witted kind of character that, when asked a question, doesn't devise an answer until long after it is needed. But yesterday, I had a friend ask me:

"Jim, how do you develop your outlook on life?"

I thought for a moment, then responded, "Very carefully."

To which I would add after the fact: industriously, selectively, enthusiastically, and (to the extent that my character permits) humbly.