I hear you both as talking about trust. Either we trust that life is out to get us or we trust that life loves us. Depending on which belief we have faith in, we tend to experience life through that filter.

For much of my youth I had an unrecognized belief that life was against me. To use your terminology from the book, I was meeting life with a depressed attitude and always looking for the bad that was going to happen. Then at a certain point I made some radically different decisions and as a result things began to change. Eventually I wound up trusting that life loved me and was always working to bless me, even if I couldn't understand its thinking at the time. As you might expect, my life has kept getting better the more I hold that perspective.