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What does it mean?
Your beliefs about your capabilities determine your actual outcomes.
In plain terms
Believing in yourself makes you succeed; doubting yourself makes you fail.
What can you take from it?
Mindset shapes reality.

Where it applies

  • personal development
  • goal setting
  • overcoming doubt

Putting it to work

  • cultivate positive beliefs
  • challenge self-doubt

Questions to consider

  • What limits do you believe in?
  • How does belief affect your actions?

Another view

External barriers can exist regardless of belief.

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