Many times attitude taken as a wrong way. Each one of us have a attitude.Life is acting and we all are actors.e.g If you r being interview for finance manager post, and u r a happy go luck person then u need to develop an attitude which is suitable for that post. either it comes to us by imagine , or the person whom we have interacted before.
Our own attitude differs from person to person, there are some people whom we can talk easily and some guys ,we find difficulty to talk with them. now the question is how to talk, behave ease and the person we r with those guys whom we find difficult to mingle.
I think the keys find and observe the mood of that person at that time.Like somebody is in serious mood , so match up our own thinking to that persons mood and interact. If person is in fun and child mood think the in which child think and do the things.
the sources of attitude could be past events,friends,family.an article, a scene of a movie ,the way somebody behaved with us last time etc...