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137. The science of self-belief, part I: self-concept

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How Does Self-Concept Affect Academic Interest?

With age self-concept decreases from a young age and then it levels out in middle adolescence. It starts increasing at least through early adulthood I don't believe they've done much research past that so this is something that totally reflects my personal experience of people four-year-olds sometimes have incredibly inflated senses of their abilities to do anything. A lot of the time obviously probably depends on kid-dick-ed but in my experience that certainly seems to happen a bit like drunk people feel that they're invincible maybe we can increase everyone's self-concept that way anyway separate topic next one is teenagers.

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