Self-belief does not necessarily ensure success, but self-disbelief assuredly spawns failure.
People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.
In order to succeed, people need a sense of self-efficacy, to struggle together with resilience to meet the inevitable obstacles and inequities of life.
Learning would be exceedingly laborious, not to mention hazardous, if people had to rely solely on the effects of their own actions to inform them what to do. Fortunately, most human behavior is learned observationally through modeling: from observing others one forms an idea of how new behaviors are performed, and on later occasions this coded information serves as a guide for action.
People not only gain understanding through reflection, they evaluate and alter their own thinking.
What people think, believe, and feel affects how they behave. The natural and extrinsic effects of their actions, in turn, partly determine their thought patterns and affective reactions.
Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.
People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.
People who believe they have the power to exercise some measure of control over their lives are healthier, more effective and more successful than those who lack faith in their ability to effect changes in their lives.
People judge their capabilities partly by comparing their performances with those of others
Most of the images of reality on which we base our actions are really based on vicarious experience.
Psychology cannot tell people how they ought to live their lives. It can however, provide them with the means for effecting personal and social change.
The content of most textbooks is perishable, but the tools of self-directedness serve one well over time.
We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.
Self-efficacy is the belief in one's capabilities to organize and execute the sources of action required to manage prospective situations.
People's conceptions about themselves and the nature of things are developed and verified through four different processes: direct experience of the effects produced by their actions, vicarious experience of the effects produced by somebody else's actions, judgments voiced by others, and derivation of further knowledge from what they already know by using rules of inference
Such knowledge is probably gained in several ways. One process undoubtedly operates through social comparison of success and failure experiences. Children repeatedly observe their own behavior and the attainments of others
If self-efficacy is lacking, people tend to behave ineffectually, even though they know what to do.
After people become convinced they have what it takes to succeed, they persevere in the face of adversity and quickly rebound from setbacks. By sticking it out through tough times, they emerge stronger from adversity.
Once established, reputations do not easily change.
One cannot afford to be a realist.
Agemates provide the most informative points of reference for comparative efficacy appraisal and verification. Children are, therefore, especially sensitive to their relative standing among the peers with whom they affiliate in activities that determine prestige and popularity
The performances of others are often selected as standards for self-improvement of abilities
People who regard themselves as highly efficacious act, think, and feel differently from those who perceive themselves as inefficacious. They produce their own future, rather than simply foretell it.
People who are insecure about themselves will avoid social comparisons that are potentially threatening to their self-esteem
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