This article takes as its point of departure Bandura's self-efficacy theory. This theory, as the author writes, " suggests there are four major sources for building confidence to perform and persevere at a task: mastery experience, vicarious experience, verbal persuasion, and emotional arousal." It left me wondering where my own sense of self-efficacy came from. Bandura's guide isn't much help, because it feels like it covers all possible influences for anything. What distinguishes me from other people? Was it free access to wood and tools as a kid? Was it my years as a Boy Scout? Was it my newspaper route or experience selling greeting cards door-to-door? If I had to say anything, I'd say self-efficacy depends on opportunity as much as it does on anything else. But that's just me saying it.
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