Hazardous attitudes are attitudes that negatively affect the quality of your decisions. Recognizing them is the first step in neutralizing them. There are 5 attitudes:

• Anti-authority: Those who do not like anyone telling them what to do.
• Impulsivity: Those who feel the need to do something, anything, immediately.
• Invulnerability: Those who believe that accidents happen to others.
• Macho: Those who are trying to prove that they are better than anyone else. “Watch this!
• Resignation: Those who do not see themselves making a difference.

Here’s a list of antidotes to the 5 hazardous attitudes discussed in the previous chapter.

• Anti-authority: Follow the rules. They are usually right.
• Impulsivity: Not so fast. Think first.
• Invulnerability: It could happen to me.
• Macho: Taking chances is foolish.
• Resignation: “I’m not helpless. ?I can make a difference.