Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor Podcast.

I'm your host Rob Dial.

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Today I'm going to be talking about how to change your beliefs about yourself and how when you

change your beliefs about yourself you'll actually change everything that you do in the world.

And it's actually something that's called the self-perception theory. And so when you look at

psychology, one of the biggest parts of psychology, like maybe step one and of self-improvement as well is self-awareness.

It's a key psychological thing that you need in order to start to work on yourself.

Like you can't fix something that you're unaware of.

And so there's this thing that's called the self-perception theory.

And it was brought up by psychologist Darrell Byrne in 1972 and this theory

basically says that we develop our abilities, our beliefs, and our feelings

by observing our own behaviors and then come to a

conclusion on what must have caused them. And so we basically look at what we do and

then we jump to some sort of conclusion and then from

there we figure out who we are and so with self-perception theory at the heart of

self-perception theory is this concept that is considered introspection, which another way of saying

that is like self-observation. A lot of people are just mindlessly wandering through the world in just doing things and acting in certain ways and thinking in certain ways

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