The mind creates evidence for whichever story you repeatedly ask it to prove.

Ask your mind whether people always let you down and it will assemble a case, because that is what it is for. It scans memory for matches, promotes the ones that fit, and quietly loses the rest, and the resulting file feels like evidence rather than a search result. The same machinery works just as hard for a kinder question. What varies is the question, not the ability.

Notice the question you are actually asking when you feel low, and rephrase it once. What went wrong today has a companion question about what went right, and both will be answered honestly. You are not lying to yourself; you are widening the search.