Some motivational speakers make the correlation between one's personal assessment and their general success in life, whether it be in their personal life or in a professional setting. When a person maintains a positive focus on who they are and their capabilities, success is usually closer at hand. However, as we down-grade our self-assessment, it is believed that our potential also suffers as a result. Needless to say, we all have the potential for experiencing highs and lows in our self-esteem (SE) simply as a result of going through life. When we experience success such as in a sport or on the job we probably are on the higher end of the SE scale. Failure on the other hand may have a negative result......it would probably depend upon the importance of the subject. And then there are those who, after failing at something, end up coming back even more determined to succeed. Having a high self-esteem can be invaluable is situations such as in an job interview. High self-esteem, not nacissism.
Self-efficacy relates to a belief that we have the skills to accomplish a given task. We can have a sense that we are capable of performing a long list of things while on the other hand have another long list of things that we have some apprehension about. Improving our self-efficacy with regards to let's say public speaking we will probably have to do a lot of speaking before audiences. We will have to develop the conviction that is needed in order to improve. Once we have applied ourselves and begin seeing improvement, our self-esteem will no doubt increase.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment