One cannot afford to be a realist.

People with high assurance in their capabilities approach difficult tasks as challenges to be mastered rather than as threats to be avoided.

Humans are producers of their life circumstance not just products of them.

Accurate processing of information about outcomes is no simple task under the variable conditions of everyday life . . . usually, many factors enter into determining what effects, if any, given actions will have, Actions, therefore, produce outcomes probabilistically rather than certainly. Depending on the particular conjunction of factors, the same course of action may produce given outcomes regularly, occasionally, or only infrequently

One cannot afford to be a realist.

Self-doubt creates the impetus for learning but hinders adept use of previously established skills

We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.