The belief in your mastery over your life and…

The belief in your mastery over your life and your ability to meet challenges as they arise is what psychologist called self efficacy, it’s self being effective. Competitiveness. Jason Satterfield, and Martin Siegelman discovered that those who respond to the adversity more optimistically would predictively be more aggressive and take more risks, where the more pessimistic reaction to adversity resulted in more passivity and caution. ## Sheet: failure

— from Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)

In the book

But be careful what kind you build: self-confidence is worth nothing without the competence underneath it, so the goal is not to inflate the reading but to earn it. There is a name the psychologists give to the deeper belief beneath all this — your locus of control, the sense that the controls are genuinely in your hands and that you can meet what comes. Hold that honestly and you fly; lose it and you are merely a passenger in your own life. — Who Is Flying (Self, Nature & Nurture)

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• The Mind in the Cockpit
• Failure & Resilience (Challenge/Failure/Perseverance/Accountability/Flexibility/Resilience)

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