You filter for what went wrong and miss what went right

Come, let us examine the lens you did not know you were wearing. The mind colors perception; it does not simply record it — as you review an event, the mind runs a filter catching every error and letting the successes pass unnoted, so what you remember is not what happened but what the filter kept, and it feels like honest memory precisely because it does not feel like a distortion. A record made only of failures is not honest; it is distorted — a day of ten good moments and one error, remembered as "a bad day," is not humbly assessed but falsely reported, and believing you see clearly, you come to live in a darker world than the one you actually inhabited. And deliberately record what went right, until the filter widens — name what went well, plainly and specifically, giving it the weight the errors get automatically, not to deny what went wrong but to stop it being the only thing recorded; this trains attention, and attention steadily directed to the good widens the filter until the record it keeps is, at last, the true one. What went well in your day that barely registered?