"Believe in yourself" has been etched into motivational posters, graduation speeches, and just about every self-help book in the $13 billion personal development industry. But it turns out, this isn’t ...

Beliefs have huge power to shape our lives, but most of ours are completely unconscious. Chekhov once famously said, "Man is what he believes." It’s an idea you’ll hear repeated ad nauseam across the ...

How we see ourselves and how we engage with the world doesn’t happen by chance. Unconscious beliefs are learned in childhood as a function of conditioning. How a child learns to think of themselves is ...

There’s a technique in cognitive-behavioral therapy called the Downward Arrow. When a client shows signs of a self-limiting or negative belief in the way they talk about themselves or a situation, a ...

Researchers have uncovered why individuals who experience anxiety and depression often struggle with persistent low self-belief. Researchers at UCL have uncovered why individuals who experience ...

It is quite trendy to be self-employed these days. It’s like saying you can choose to "fire the boss" and have a better quality of life then. These ideas are further reinforced by media, social media ...

The Chinese phrase for confidence is “自信” — self-belief. My confidence comes from many places, but for as long as I can remember, the main source of it has been my perception of my masculinity — a ...

Self-belief and performance have a reciprocal, circular relationship. This mastery flywheel is a self-reinforcing, virtuous cycle, where consistent, compounding investments in learning and skill ...

Tinker Bell. You likely know the tiny fairy rather well—she's kind of a big deal. She entered the world in J.M. Barrie's 1904 play, Peter Pan, was featured in the 1911 book adaptation Peter and Wendy ...

Deep down, many of us feel that we’re not as happy as we could be: We feel stuck living a life we don’t want. We feel ashamed of past mistakes, uncertain of how to let them go. We worry about the ...