📝Self-Efficacy

TL;DR:

Tell yourself and others the following: "You are capable"

Definition

Self-efficacy: a person's belief in their ability to success in a particular situation.

Self-efficacy is also being able to recover from failures and setbacks.

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It is important to distinguish which phrases we tell ourselves are helpful and hurting us

Helpful	Hurting
"You are capable" 📗	"You are smart" 🔻
"You work hard" 📗	"You are talented" 🔻
"You can overcome this" 📗	"You are a good writer" 🔻
These are Effort based. These are controllable, dynamic, and can be improved upon.	These are Ability based. These are fixed qualities that cannot be improved upon.

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Some more Self-Efficacy phrases

For oneself

• "What's something you can do better?"

• "How can I prepare & improve?"

• "Problems are tasks to be mastered"

  • Educate yourself with knowledge on the issue/topic

  • Seek mentors

  • Celebrate small wins

For others

• "You put in alot of effort into this"

• "You prepared well for this"

• "That didn't work, but let's try another solution together"

• "Don't feel bad if you can't do it yet" (Keyword: yet)