Confidence: How to Overcome Your Limiting Beliefs and Achieve Your Goals
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Unsure of Yourself? Learn How to Develop More Confidence in Your Abilities and Achieve Your Goals
Most of us have no problems identifying goals we want to accomplish. It’s putting these plans into action that is difficult.
Sometimes we lack discipline or motivation. However, there’s another reason why you might struggle to make changes in your life – you have low self-efficacy and don’t believe in your abilities.
What is self-efficacy? What are the main four sources of it? How can you become more confident in your skills?
These are some of the questions I’ll answer in this short book. The advice you’re about to read is based both on scientific research and my personal experience. I will share fundamental knowledge that will help you build more confidence in your abilities and reach your goals.
Here are just a few things you will learn from the book:
- Five characteristics of people with strong self-efficacy and five characteristics of people with weak self-efficacy. These behaviors determine whether you’ll realize your full potential or succumb to mediocrity.
- What you can learn from building a university in space (and what it has to do with the belief in your own abilities). It’s the single most important thing to achieve bigger and bigger goals.
- A simple therapy to teach you how to handle failure the right way. It’s uncomfortable, but you can be sure it will kill your fear of failure once and for all.
- What a strange study about hitting dolls or treating them kindly can teach you about how others affect your beliefs about your competence. It’s the second most effective way to increase the strength of your belief in your abilities.
- What a phenomenon discovered by a German industrial psychologist can teach you about motivation. There’s a simple way to inspire you to put more effort into your goals.
- The #1 key to improving the confidence in your abilities. If you don’t have time to read the entire book, read this one tip alone.
- What a study on experts and novices can teach you about how experts approach problems. You too can adapt this behavior to shorten your learning curve and develop a stronger belief in your abilities.
If you don’t actively work on developing a strong sense of self-efficacy, making any kind of changes in your life will be an extremely difficult ordeal. Scroll up and buy this book now to change your life for the better.
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- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A REMARKABLE BOOK AND TAKE AS A GUIDE TO REACH TO YOUR AIM
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Very practical book and easy to implement, really recommended it
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I absolutely enjoyed this book. It gave me alot of great information on self efficacy that I didn't know about. I discovered how to handle self doubt, and how to overcome my personal failures. This is one of the best books I have read so far.
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Table of Contents
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Table of Contents
Prologue
Chapter 1: What Is Self-Efficacy?
Chapter 2: The Experience of Mastery
Chapter 3: Social Modeling
Chapter 4: Social Persuasion and Psychological Responses
Chapter 5: Five Rules to Develop a Strong Sense of Self-Efficacy
Epilogue
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Extended table of contents is available at the end of the book.
Prologue
Nobody doubts that setting goals is one of the most important keys to making life changes, regardless of whether they’re big, audacious goals, or just small adjustments.
Yet, while most of us have no problems identifying goals we want to accomplish, putting these plans into action is frequently much more difficult than we think.
A lack of self-discipline and motivation contribute to this behavior. However, there’s another lesser-known reason why some people struggle to make changes in their lives.
It’s their low self-efficacy.
Individuals who don’t possess much self-efficacy have a hard time putting their plans into action and following through because deep down they don’t believe they can achieve them.
You don’t even have to be aware you exhibit behavior common among people with low self-efficacy, yet it can dramatically affect your life.
What are the main four factors that affect your self-efficacy? How can you develop more confidence in your abilities? What are the most important things you need to know about the influence of your mind on your achievements?
These are some of the questions I’ll answer in this short book. The advice you’re about to read is based both on scientific research and my personal experience.
Instead of delving deep into the details, I will share fundamental knowledge that will make the most difference in your life.
My goal is to help you understand how to develop more confidence in your abilities and avoid the most common dangers associated with low self-efficacy.
Let’s start with explaining in more detail what self-efficacy is.
Chapter 1: What Is Self-Efficacy?
Self-efficacy is the strength of your beliefs in your ability to complete tasks successfully. It determines things such as:
- whether you will persist or give up while working on a specific task,
- how long you will stick to uncomfortable changes designed to bring long-term results (diet, workout regimen),
- what goals you’ll set for yourself and where extremely difficult
ends and impossible