Perhaps the biggest change in Liverpool during the Jurgen Klopp era has been the ability to keep on looking forward, regardless of the pain felt in what has gone before.
That relentless belief is about to face its biggest challenge though.
Because while prior to last season the Reds under Klopp were a side that had experienced the pain of losing a Champions League final and being pipped to the Premier League title by a point, they are now a group who have done both of those things twice.
You wouldn't be human if that didn't knock confidence levels a little, or make you question yourself, your methods or the methods of those around you.
Yet at Liverpool there remains a clarity and a clear understanding of purpose, ensuring that a calmness seems to reign over the group regardless of what is going on.
Take the fairly tumultuous events of the past few months.
After playing in every available fixture in 2021-22, the Reds' season came to a disappointing ending as Manchester City fought back from the brink to win the Premier League and then they lost a rather hazy Champions League final which is destined to forever be remembered for chaotic and dangerous organisation.
Since then a couple of club legends have departed in Sadio Mane and Divock Origi, the club transfer record has come under threat from the arrival of Darwin Nunez, Mo Salah has signed on for three more years and Klopp has faced down suggestions from all corners of the internet that his side desperately need another midfielder.
They don't, he says. They trust the ones they have.
And trust is a key component of what Liverpool do, with a consistent effort made to keep on pulling in the same direction.
It is what lays the foundation for successes, and allows them to quickly recover from near misses.
"After the final Premier League game of the season against Wolves, we had come from behind to win the match, but had still lost the title to Manchester City by a point," writes Klopp's assistant Pep Lijnders in his new book I ntensity: Inside Liverpool FC - Our Identity , published by Reach Sport.
"All the families joined us on the pitch directly after the game for the lap of appreciation.
"We had won the match, but missed out on the title to Manchester City and It showed that the best remedy for adversity is family – all the faces changed immediately when we saw our loved ones.
"My heart stopped for a second when I saw a new banner on the Kop: ‘WE WIN CUPS’. I could have painted that one myself, I was thinking. A new culture of winning installed in this beautiful club, a new era.
"As I said, I get the feeling that our fans see the support not just as a passion but as their job.
"The best thing that happened on this day is that we won our game. I think we would never have forgiven ourselves if we hadn’t.
"The other good thing was the words of Jürgen directly after the game: “What I learned about life is if you stay on track, when you keep going, you get the reward.
“Not today, the maximum reward. We would have deserved it as well. But we will get it. It’s up to us to keep going and that’s what we will do.
“Next week, next season. What I said so often, the five minutes after the game are more important than the five days leading up to the game.
"This couldn’t have been truer for us to prepare for the Champions League final.
"Jürgen couldn’t have done better when speaking to the boys, in my opinion. The only way for a club to be successful is with pure leadership, from top to bottom. Because it’s like this: the only path to continuous improvement is to compete against yourself. I can’t praise the players enough; everything we achieve is because of their dedication."
Klopp might be the man who sends the message from the top, and Lijnders is his most faithful foot soldier, but the Dutch coach insists that the real inspiration comes from captain Jordan Henderson, the on-field personification of the belief that flows through the club.
"Hendo is key in this. Why? Because he unlocked the belief in the other players even more," Lijnders continues.
"Hendo is the reason for the standards and the humility.
"If you ever have a doubt in life, just ask yourself: what would Hendo do? And you get your answer.
"Yes, we can look back (on the title) now, where we missed points, but if you want to absorb and live completely the game of football you should never search for perfection. ‘Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today’, is probably the best saying. Doers have errors, doers move on.
"We prefer the doers, it’s much more about the ones who have courage than the perfectionists."
That failure to win the Premier League, plus Champions League disappointment, added an extra bitter conclusion to the season, but Lijnders is preferring to look at the positives ahead of a campaign when the Reds played in every available fixture, something that they are set up to do again this time around because of the mentality that runs throughout the group.
"The morning after (the Wolves game), I woke up to a text from Jürgen: 'What a season!'" writes Lijnders.
"I respond: 'We took everything out of it. What a journey… so much happened but always improving, keeping them fit, focused and hungry for the whole decisive period. We played each game, how bizarre is that. Men on a mission we were!"
As the new season draws closer, the mission continues.
Pep Lijnders Intensity: Inside Liverpool FC - Our Identity, published by Reach Sport, is on sale August 4 from Amazon
