"Attitudes are the colours with which we paint the pictures of our own story on the canvas of life." - Craig Lock and my great buddy, Dr Andrew Eastcott Gisborne, New Zealand WHERE DO YOUR ATTITUDES COME FROM? I believe that heredity (the genes that you inherit) have some part in forming attitudes. However, most important in shaping them, is the family environment, especially in your early childhood: the impressionable years up to the age of seven. Also critical are your lifetime experiences.