SELF EFFICACY

Extract From “Emotional Intelligence” by Daniel Goleman

SELF EFFICACY
The belief that one has mastery over the events of one’s life and can meet challenges as they come up .  Developing a competency of any kind strengthens the sense of self-efficacy making a person willing to take more risks and seek out more demanding challenges.   People’s beliefs about their abilities have a profound effect on those abilities.  Ability is not a fixed property , there is a huge variability in how you perform.  People who have a sense of self efficacy bounce back from failures. 
 
Confidence as a spectrum and in another guise ?  

What Is Self-Efficacy? Definition and Examples (thoughtco.com)

Key Takeaways: Self-Efficacy

• Self-efficacy refers to the set of beliefs we hold about our ability to complete a particular task.
• According to psychologist Albert Bandura, the first proponent of the concept, self-efficacy is the product of past experience, observation, persuasion, and emotion.
• Self-efficacy is linked to academic achievement and the ability to overcome phobias.

 
Daniel Goleman (born March 7, 1946) is an author, psychologist, and science journalist. For twelve years, he wrote for The New York Times, reporting on the brain and behavioral sciences. His 1995 book Emotional Intelligence was on The New York Times Best Seller list for a year and a half

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