Albert Bandura

The other depends on believing in the person you'll be, no matter what the future brings.

Psychologist Albert Bandura called this self-efficacy, your belief in your ability to handle challenges and influence outcomes.

What's fascinating is that decades of research show self-efficacy isn't built by positive thinking.

It grows through what Bandura called mastery experiences.

We watch others tell lies, and we think they must just have a cankered soul.

The psychologist Albert Bandura suggests much of our problem isn't moral defect, but moral slumber.

In other words, we're capable of making good moral choices, but we just aren't thinking about this choice as a moral one.

We're morally asleep.

So the two skills that we're going to be working on are self-efficacy and unconditional self-worth.

So self-efficacy really was proposed by this, um, psychologist Albert Bandura, and it's a term for the belief in one's own ability to achieve things, and it's built through four roots.

So you can be thinking about this when we then start going into the, into the actual practical things that you can do.

And the four roots are mastery experiences, so doing hard things and finding that you can manage them, or it's seeing other people similar to you who succeed, and then what happens is that you then see, well, I know, and again, it's not at a conscious level, but at an unconscious level, there are also people like me who are able to do this, and because they're like me, I should equally be able to do that.

It would be so good.

Imagine if you had Bandura and it sticks out so much more as a standalone cross-country.

It's like the cross-country you get up for.

Everyone's getting there for that.