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Originally Posted by txsha
The thing about LOA is you never actually know what someone is thinking or feeling.
In the case of the guy who believes every time that his next idea is going to be a big hit - you don't know if he truly believes that or if he is telling everyone it will be a big hit as a way to convince himself because he doubts himself.
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I think we can make some assumptions about people we've known over a period of time. The problem is, will readers here be bothered to read a long entire story?! The person to whom I was referring has a positive enough attitude (toward most things, not just his musical work) but seems to rest on having a couple of successes. He expects success but it doesn't always come.
But you've hit on this point - there could be many factors at play. It could even be down to natural affirmation (which is SO often confused with LoA) like a successful businessperson does without thinking, keeping focus single-mindedly on goals and "winning". It could even be down to coincidence - or just reaching a decision about how to use resources.
What it amounts to for me is that it's - well, I hesitate to say this - but, a useless law - precisely because we really don't know whether a result is the direct cause of how people are using it. Unlike if you have a headache you take a favourite pain-killer knowing with maybe 95% certainty that it's going to work. Like you said:
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LOA gives you the exact essence of what you think/feel. A hypochondriac may think they fear cancer, but that fear feeling would actually be caused by something else and that is what they would bring more of in their life.
txs
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So the LoA (which was earlier advocated by someone who has since been shown to be a bit of a fraud) might sound a nice exhortation for those lacking something but as a technique contains inherently doubts and it's limited in what it can achieve. It relies on vehemently believing you already have or what you want to be. I gave an example on another topic in this section. I AM a world famous concert pianist (so LoA tells me)....which is very hard to believe when I sit at a piano only to realise that I'm not, if nothing else because I don't have the hand span to play many big concert works!
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So....it's great (and important) to be optimistic but...don't let's overdo it!