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superb cognitive processing of all the information which contains

uncertainties and ambiguities about the future.

You need to do the following in order to learn the regulative and
predictive rules:-

• Rely on your knowledge, wisdom and experience to weigh and
construct options

• Weigh and then integrate the predictive factors where that is
possible

• Test and revise your judgments against the immediate as well

as distal results of your own actions
• Remember those factors which you have previously tested and

how well or bad they worked

You need to develop high efficacy if you want to remain oriented to
tasks in circumstances in which you can succeed or fail. In practice,

most people have doubts whether they will succeed in the event of
serious challenging tasks. If you have low self efficacy, you will give

up even before you undertake the challenge or after making very few
advances of addressing the challenge. If you have high self efficacy

band self confidence, you will set higher goals and then put your brain

to work and look for solutions to the problems before hand.

Motivational Processes

Your individual beliefs are directly related to how you are motivated.
Human motivation is mainly generated cognitively. People motivate

themselves and then pout that motivation to practice and work. They

form the belief that they can make or achieve it. They predict all the
likely events in the future and then prepare for anything; good or bad.

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