Buy a red car and suddenly the streets are full of red cars. They were there. Your attention moved.

Once something matters to you, your attention starts flagging it everywhere, and the world seems to have changed overnight. Nothing was added to it. A filter got switched on, and now the same street delivers a completely different report. Worth knowing in both directions, because the filter can be set to threat just as easily as to red cars.

Notice what yours is tuned to this week. If you have been seeing nothing but people doing better than you, that is a setting rather than a fact. Point it at something you actually want more of and watch how fast the evidence starts arriving.