Humans Are Producers Of Their Life Circumstance

After People Become Convinced They Have What It Takes To Succeed, They Persevere In The Face Of Adversity And Quickly Rebound From Setbacks. By Sticking It Out Through Tough Times, They Emerge Stronger From Adversity.

People’s Beliefs About Their Abilities Have A Profound Effect On Those Abilities.

Dualistic Doctrines That Regard Mind And Body As Separate Entities Do Not Provide Much Enlightenment On The Nature Of The Disembodied Mental State Or On How An Immaterial Mind And Bodily Events Act On Each Other

The Human Condition Is Better Improved By Altering Detrimental Circumstances And Personal Perspectives Than By Trying To Alter Personal Outlooks, While Ignoring The Very Circumstances That Serve To Nourish Them

If You Look At Our Theories Of Social Pathology And Then At The Dismal Conditions In Which Children Grow Up In Our Ghettos, You Would Predict That All Of Them Would Be On Drugs Or Psychological Basket Cases. Yet If You Use Criteria Like Gainful Employment, Forming Partnerships And Life Without Crime, You Will Find That Most Of Those Kids Make It.