Remember teachers in school telling you you’d never achieve success in life if you ‘continued to have that attitude’? Turns out, that childhood warning was spot on, and success in life does indeed link deeply to having the right mindset to get you there. Inc.com wrote about a Stanford University study that found that having the right attitude can legitimately make your mind sharper and more efficient. The study claims a good bent of mind improves "the ability to answer math problems, increased memory , and improved problem-solving skills ".