“The four Ways reflect a pervasive belief that life will be simple if we practice four basic principles: Show up or choose to be present, Pay attention to what has heart and meaning, Tell the truth without blame or judgment, and Be open, rather than attached to, the outcome.” IfsWayHeartShowsBeliefSimplePayAttentionPrinciplesPracticeFourJudgmentBlamePay AttentionOutcomesTelling The TruthBasic Principles Author:Angeles Arrien
“Self-efficacy beliefs differ from outcome expectations, judgments of the likely consequence [that] behavior will produce.” SelfBeliefProduceBehaviorJudgmentExpectationsConsequenceOutcomesEfficacySelf Efficacy Author:Albert Bandura
“When you appoint someone, you appoint somebody because of their character, their convictions, their abilities. And not because you have a belief, a confidence, in a foreordained outcome in any given decision.” CharacterBeliefGivenAbilityDecisionConvictionOutcomes Author:Karl Rove
“Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outcome, when there's no logical connection between them. Most of us aren't superstitious - but most of us are a 'littlestitious.'” BeliefInfluenceObjectsBehaviorConnectionsOutcomesLogicalSuperstitionsIrrationalSuperstitiousAuthentic HappinessIrrational Beliefs Author:Gretchen Rubin
“Doubt is most often the source of our powerlessness. To doubt is to be faithless, to be without hope or belief. When we doubt, our self-talk sounds like this: 'I don't think I can. I don't think I will.'... To doubt is to have faith in the worst possible outcome. It is to believe in the perverseness of the universe, that even if I do well, something I don't know about will get in the way, sabotage me, or get me in the end.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayBelieveWellsI CanEndsSelfMotivationalUniverseBeliefSoundDoubtWorstSourceOutcomesHave FaithPowerlessnessWithout HopeSabotageSelf TalkFaithlessPerverseness Author:Blaine Lee Pardoe
“Millions of mutual-fund investors sleep well at night, serene in the belief that superior outcomes result from pooling funds with like-minded investors and engaging high-quality investment managers to provide professional insight. The conventional wisdom ends up hopelessly unwise, as evidence shows an overwhelming rate of failure by mutual funds to deliver on promises.” WellsEndsShowsNightBeliefSleepResultsQualityMillionsPromiseEvidenceInvestmentRateInvestingInsightSuperiorsManagersOutcomesFundMutualOverwhelmingInvestorsConventionalEngagingSereneHigh QualityConventional WisdomUnwiseMutual FundSleep Well Author:David F. Swensen
“It is widely assumed that beliefs in personal determination of outcomes create a sense of efficacy and power, whereas beliefs that outcomes occur regardless of what one does result in apathy” DoeBeliefResultsDeterminationOutcomesApathyEfficacySelf Efficacy Author:Albert Bandura
“In any given instance, behavior can be predicted best by considering both self-efficacy and outcome beliefs . . . different patterns of self-efficacy and outcome beliefs are likely to produce different psychological effects” DifferentSelfBeliefGivenEffectsProduceBehaviorPatternsPsychologicalInstanceOutcomesConsideringEfficacySelf Efficacy Author:Albert Bandura
“The effects of outcome expectancies on performance motivation are partly governed by self-beliefs of efficacy” SelfMotivationBeliefEffectsPerformancesOutcomesEfficacyBelief In SelfExpectancySelf Efficacy Author:Albert Bandura
“Expected outcomes contribute to motivation independently of self-efficacy beliefs when outcomes are not completely controlled by quality of performance. This occurs when extraneous factors also affect outcomes, or outcomes are socially tied to a minimum level of performance so that some variations in quality of performance above and below the standard do not produce differential outcomes” SelfMotivationBeliefLevelsQualityProduceStandardsPerformancesExpectedFactorsOutcomesControlledTiedMinimumVariationEfficacySelf EfficacyAbove And Below Author:Albert Bandura
“Perceived self-efficacy and beliefs about the locus of outcome causality must be distinguished” SelfBeliefOutcomesDistinguishedEfficacyCausalitySelf EfficacyPerceived Self Author:Albert Bandura