Confidence: How to Overcome Your Limiting Beliefs and Achieve Your Goals by Meadows Martin

Author:Meadows, Martin [Meadows, Martin]
Language: pol
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Meadows Publishing
Published: 2015-04-06T18:30:00+00:00

SOCIAL PERSUASION AND PSYCHOLOGICAL RESPONSES: QUICK RECAP

1. Social persuasion in the form of encouraging or discouraging words has a weaker effect than mastery experiences and social modeling. However, frequent encouragement can still build your self-efficacy, while frequent discouragement can ruin your confidence.

2. Discouragement is more effective at decreasing your self-efficacy than encouragement is at increasing it. It’s paramount to do all in your power to avoid negative people, as it’s even more important than surrounding yourself with people who will empower you.

3. You don’t need others to benefit from social persuasion. Positive self-talk (saying to yourself things like “I can do it,” “I’m pretty good at this”) will give you a short burst of motivation that can help you achieve small wins that will add up to big wins. Listening to motivational music can also work.

4. Psychological responses to stress like shaking, aches and pains, fatigue, fear, nausea, butterflies in the stomach can affect your self-efficacy if you believe that these signs are associated with your inability to perform.

5. The first step to reduce the influence of psychological responses on your self-efficacy is to instill in yourself a belief that even the pros experience the same signs of distress as you do. Since these reactions are common even among highly-skilled people, they don’t mean your abilities are lacking.

6. Practice stress management techniques to decrease the symptoms of stress. Put yourself in uncomfortable situations to get used to these reactions. However, keep in mind that your time will be better spent on achieving small wins and imitating others than trying to reduce the symptoms of anxiety.

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