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

Albert Bandura

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Albert Bandura
Age: 95 †
Born: 1925
Born: December 4
Died: 2021
Died: July 26
Psychologist
University Teacher
Humans
Life
Circumstance
Producers
Products
Circumstances
Inspirational

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When experience contradicts firmly held judgments of self-efficacy, people may not change their beliefs about themselves if the conditions of performance are such as to lead them to discount the import of the experience
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We are more heavily invested in the theories of failure than we are in the theories of success.
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