Self-efficacy Is The Belief In One's Capabilities

Humans Are Producers Of Their Life Circumstance Not Just Products Of Them.

Persons Who Have A Strong Sense Of Efficacy Deploy Their Attention And Effort To The Demands Of The Situation And Are Spurred By Obstacles To Greater Effort.

This Has Increased With The Tremendous Technological Advances In Communications. We Have A Vast New World Of Images Brought Into Our Sitting Rooms Electronically. Most Of The Images Of Reality On Which We Base Our Actions Are Really Based On Vicarious Experience. This Has Increased With The Tremendous Technological Advances In Communications. We Have A Vast New World Of Images Brought Into Our Sitting-rooms Electronically.

Accomplishment Is Socially Judged By Ill Defined Criteria So That One Has To Rely On Others To Find Out How One Is Doing.

Ironically, It Is The Talented Who Have High Aspirations, Which Are Possible But Exceedingly Difficult To Realize, Who Are Especially Vulnerable To Self-dissatisfaction Despite Notable Achievements.