The concept of self-efficacy was proposed by the psychologist Bandura, which generally refers to the degree of inner confidence in whether people can use the skills they have to complete a certain job.
Bandura argues that in addition to the expectation of results, there is also an expectation of effectiveness. Outcome expectation refers to a person's assumption that a certain action will lead to a certain outcome. If a person predicts that a particular action will lead to a particular outcome, then that behavior may be activated and selected.
What does this mean?
For example, a person likes to play games very much, and finds his interest through playing games, and he suddenly wants to make money and support himself by playing games.
Nowadays, many gamers will engage in live broadcasts, open UP masters, and be able to make some money. As a result, some people will be very excited, hoping that one day they can play the game and have a good time, and then get the desired results.
However, in this process, people will also have judgment and will evaluate their own behavior. For example, whether I have talent, whether I am good at playing games, whether I react faster than others, etc., and so on.
When people know exactly that they are not talented enough and that they can't make money from this thing, they will stop acting and give up their original ideas.
On the contrary, if you know that you can be talented and can make money, you will be very motivated, think and act consistently, and will strive for the goal of playing games to make money.
Phenomena like this are the outward manifestations of psychology's "self-efficacy", which shows their own psychological characteristics.
From the perspective of positive psychology, people must have a good sense of self-efficacy in order to cope with the inevitable obstacles and injustices in life and move towards success. The higher the self-efficacy, that is, the more likely the individual thinks he or she is to do a good job in a certain area, and the more likely he is to try to do it positively.
In life, we often see that some people have low self-efficacy and lack self-confidence, and they usually express a cowardly attitude. For example, "Other people can make money writing novels, but this thing is so difficult, I must not be able to do it well, I don't have the confidence".
People with high self-efficacy don't think like that, he thinks like this: "Is it hard to write a novel? Whatever. I'll write it for a few months and give it a try, and then I'll talk about it. Who knows if it will succeed or not? I did it first. If you do a good job, you will stick to it if you are confident, and if you don't do a good job, I will consider doing something else. ”
Usually people with good self-efficacy will have stronger initiative and will not consider too many external factors. They will be full of energy, their actions will be one step ahead of their thoughts, and they will do it before others are still thinking about whether to do it, and they will never think about the consequences of failure and success.
Their belief has always been "activism". Act first, do continuous improvement, and improve yourself while doing until you reach the realm of success.
This psychology determines whether you dare to make an effort, feedback your thoughts through actions, and become the unity of knowledge and action.
In general, in order for people to succeed in their careers and work smoothly, they need self-efficacy, and this ability is very crucial. If you find that your self-efficacy is relatively low and you can't muster up the courage to do things, you might as well start by enhancing your self-efficacy and take action.
It's like if a guy wants to play a football and play well, what does he have to do? It's certainly not about watching the game footage and analyzing it and studying it theoretically, but you go to the football field to experience it and feel how difficult it is to play football.
If you don't, you will improve your skills right away, but you will further strengthen them so that your skills can improve.
People must also have such a mentality in work and life. Regardless of three, seven, twenty-one, don't think about mistakes first, do it first. By doing and improving, people can also make progress.