The Belief Quotient: How Your Beliefs Shape Your Life, And What You Can Do to Take Control
By James Kay
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What if you could increase your awareness of these beliefs and how they shape your reality? What if you could more accurately distinguish a limiting belief from objective reality? What if you could open up new possibilities in your life by breaking down the self-imposed barriers created by your negative beliefs?
In The Belief Quotient, author James Kay tells you how you can break through these limitations, develop greater confidence, and achieve more in your life. By challenging your existing paradigms, The Belief Quotient shows how you can surpass your current limits, building upon your successes, and create a virtuous cycle that opens up new possibilities in your life.
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The Belief Quotient - James Kay
Knowing
Chapter 1: The Belief Quotient
There are 2 types of people in the world… those that talk about what they’re going to do, and those that actually get it done. Which one are you?
Popular wisdom says that if you believe you can’t do something, you’re right; and that if you believe you can do it, you’re also right. In other words, our beliefs create our reality. Is this true? The answer is more complicated than a simple yes
or no
.
Clearly, our beliefs alone cannot define reality. Belief can’t change the laws of physics, and a lot of what happens in our lives is simply beyond our control. Simply believing that I can jump off of a seven-story building and fly will never make it so.
But beliefs can profoundly influence how our lives take shape because they dictate how we respond in any given situation. Our beliefs can prompt us to see opportunities that we might not otherwise have seen. If we believe, we will act on opportunities more frequently - which (at least some of the time) leads to positive results. If we believe in our ultimate goal, then we or more likely to see obstacles as mere obstacles - rather than seeing them as evidence that the universe is opposed to our success. If we believe, we will be persistent and creative in overcoming obstacles.
If you believe that your boss might give you a raise, then you are more likely to ask for it. If you don’t believe it’s possible, there is very little chance that you will ask at all. In the former case, although it may not be a sure thing, it is far more likely that you’ll get what you want. Your belief about getting a raise has an enormous influence over what happens.
Sometimes the effect of belief is more subtle than that. Have you ever asked someone out on a date? Did you approach the situation with a calm sense of confidence (or at least optimism)? Or did you approach nervously, braced for rejection? Which approach is more likely to result in a yes
? Your belief about the outcome influences your behavior in subtle ways and telegraphs your expectations. People often respond based on the expectations that you communicate nonverbally.
Our beliefs provide a screen through which we filter and interpret information. As a result, those beliefs influence our actions; and our actions certainly do shape reality. Simply believing that I can fly will not make it so – but without the belief that human flight was possible, the Wright brothers would never have set out to build the world’s first airplane. When we strive to believe something, we see opportunities that would otherwise have been invisible to us.
It’s often said that having clear, written goals is important. But goals are meaningless if you don’t truly believe that you can accomplish them. How often do people set a goal, only to wallow in inaction while the goal remains unmet? It happens all the time. To make matters worse, the ensuing failure reinforces our negative belief system - convincing us that we’ll never reach any of our goals. So we aim lower next time, knowing
that we can’t reach for more significant achievements. And so the downward spiral continues…
A key difference between goals that work and goals that fail is belief – not just belief that you can, but belief that you will. When you write down your goals and put them in a drawer somewhere to collect dust, you are engaging in wishful thinking. You’re fulfilling your need to live the fantasy that someday you’ll have what you want, and that your good intentions will eventually get you there. Good intentions will not get you there. Action will; and people do not take action if they don’t really believe in the possibility of success. When you take those same goals and keep them alive by nurturing a steadfast belief in yourself and the results you intend to make happen, you will dramatically increase your chances for success.
But overconfidence can be a problem, too. General George Custer felt certain that he would prevail when he led the 7th Cavalry into Little Big Horn. His brash arrogance had led him to a number of past victories in the Civil War, and later against the Native American tribes of the Northwest. But at Little Big Horn, Custer’s view of reality was distorted; he vastly underestimated the numbers of the opposing force and discounted the possibility that some of them might be better armed than his troops. In cases like these, overconfidence can get you killed.
So how can we strike a balance between a healthy confidence that supports our goals and the wishful thinking that derives from so-called positive thinking
? How can we stretch the limits of our current possibilities, without crossing the line into the truly impossible? How can we consciously and intentionally shape