Brightness
How much light you bring to what you're looking at. Controls whether you see the hopeful side or the dark side of a situation.
Kathy Geziorowitz and the Worst Book Ever Published
Brightness controls whether someone sees the hopeful or dark side of a situation. Kathy Geziorowitz started from a place of embarrassment — a book called talentless trash by the New York Times — and over time adjusted her view entirely. Rather than seeing the ridicule as confirmation of failure, she began treating it as entertaining evidence of an unusual life. The dial moved from seeing the reviews as wounds to seeing them as punchlines.