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As always, thank you so much for listening. Thank you for supporting me. And today, I want to talk about the power of self-belief. But I don't want to talk about self-belief in the sense of, you know, just looking in the mirror and saying, I am powerful. I'm confident. I'm worthy. I'm successful. As overly specific as this is going to sound, I want to talk about the power of self-belief when it comes to verbs, the things that you do, and how there's

enormous power in reminding yourself of what you do and creating self-belief from what you do,

belief in your effort, belief in what you're capable of,

versus that of adjectives, versus belief in qualities. Because when you believe in the power of

your effort, truly, you interpret the world differently. You interpret the world differently when you

believe in your effort. And this will make

sense in a minute why I say and why I differentiate between verbs and adjectives as the basis of

your self-belief. First, though, to illustrate the point, the foundation of it, I suppose, I'll refer

to a pretty well-known piece of research. It was this experiment done by Claudia Mueller and Carol Dweck in the late 90s,

which basically showed that a small shift in what you believe about yourself, it rewires how you

interpret the world around you. That is, how you interpret setbacks, aka if you believe your effort

drives outcomes, you treat criticism or a rejection or a flop

pitched, a flopped pitch or a no, you interpret those things as guidance. If you believe your

ability is fixed, you treat that same kind of feedback as a verdict. So here's the study. Basically,

researchers first, what they did was they brought a bunch of fifth graders as a verdict. So here's the study. Basically, researchers first, what they did was

they brought a bunch of fifth graders into a room and they had them solve a set of fairly easy

problems. Step one. Then the experimenters randomly praised the kids in one of two ways. One, they praised them

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