Albert Bandura

So this is how you can get the unstoppable self-belief, by repeating things that make you feel good.

And the person that did the most studying into all of this is a guy at Stanford University called Albert Bandura.

And I've read that, I've never heard him before, but I'm told that he's the most influential living psychologist for his studies of this.

And he has, the person that is effectively quoted constantly by Eileen Guu, So over the past, I suppose, year since the Winter Olympics, Arlene Gu, the Chinese skier who's obviously brought up in America, has become a bit of an icon for women and just the general population because she is highly educated, highly successful, and has this unstoppable self-belief and incredible eloquence.

And I didn't realize that a lot of things she's founded her beliefs on are Albert Bandura's theories.

So I've done some reading into that.

But, I mean, how do you think Angus – that you have developed the self-belief over the past decade that you didn't have during your teens?

And so if I'm not studying or reading stuff to do with my job in my spare time, I'm reading stuff to do with my podcast in the spare time because it's just stuff that I love reading about.

And one could consider, because we're looking at this clinically, You know, this is something that hasn't necessarily been subject in trials and we're looking at this clinically, but one could just consider a few hypotheses that what you may have here is something like counter conditioning, Vorpays, and it's associated instead of something fearful, but with achievement.

We can look at Bandura and self efficacy, like my body can do some hard things like you learn advanced breathing.

Wow, it's quite a skill.

So there are various hypotheses, though something that I would also note is that again what you're doing is changing the meaning of that sensation because you reframe it, you change the meaning and you're going to change the response.

I don't know how familiar you are with a concept called self-efficacy.

It was presented to the world by Albert Bandura, which is one of my heroes.

And I have used that for most of my life.

Self-efficacy means... that whenever you are able to succeed in something, you develop a belief that can be extrapolated to other arenas.

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Okay, so, and we use all sorts of behavioral support, so this is based on Bandura's social cognitive theory of self-regulation.

It's a lot of sort of self-explanatory stuff about people self-monitor, their diet, their exercise, their sleep, that helps people self-diagnose and self-motivate, hopefully.

We have lots of vicarious experiences, such as quotes from successful others, to improve self-efficacy and to develop new norms.

Experiences during childhood and adolescence can shape future career decisions, with outdoor leadership professionals often citing childhood outdoor experiences as an influencing career factor.

Further, Albert Bandura's social cognitive theory provides insight into three key mechanisms that influence occupational choice, self-efficacy, outcome expectations, and goal mechanisms.

For the outdoor industry, this means that people need to believe in their own capability to succeed in the workforce, understand the value and diversity of the careers available, and be aware of the pathways to get there.

We find that career promotion strategies should aim to cultivate industry interest through early career exposure to students, show job seekers their potential within the industry and demonstrate the value and likely outcomes of pursuing an industry career.

This is much safer than when Kyle drives home from the party.

And this theory of differential association has aspects of both Bandura's social learning theory and symbolic interactionism.

Strain theory.

Strain theory says that social structures within society pressure citizens to become deviant and commit crimes.

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Once more, there's something that doesn't acknowledge, I don't know that the social cognition, if we want to use Bandura's kind of work or, you know, the, the relational frame, what's the point of coming to sit in a room together, Jeff, if not to be with each other.

I mean, I don't know if that's just too simplistic for me, but why do you, Why do you think we continue upon this path? I wonder if you think public perception or media, we're in a very interesting political landscape currently in Australia.

That's also the case in other parts of the world where our listeners also are.