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  2. Dana Trent - Wikipedia

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    They hoped Schuller's message of self-healing and self-empowerment would allow them to conceive a child. About a year later, Trent was born in Los Angeles and named for the Indiana town where her father was from. [11] Trent was born in Los Angeles, and moved to Dana, Indiana as an infant.

  3. Autodidacticism - Wikipedia

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    [ambiguous] However, even in the U.S., most children were not completing high school. High school education was necessary to become a teacher. In modern times, a larger percentage of those completing high school also attended college, usually to pursue a professional degree, such as law or medicine, or a divinity degree. [13]

  4. Work self-efficacy - Wikipedia

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    The self-efficacy and work performance literatures are helpful in distinguishing some of the other constituents necessary to develop a work self-efficacy scale. We know, for example, that it is not sufficient to "empower" workers and expect improved work performance without considering individual differences that might be differentiated by self ...

  5. Self-efficacy - Wikipedia

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    High self-efficacy can affect motivation in both positive and negative ways. In general, people with high self-efficacy are more likely to make efforts to complete a task, and to persist longer in those efforts, than those with low self-efficacy. [18] The stronger the self-efficacy or mastery expectations, the more active the efforts. [19]

  6. List of autodidacts - Wikipedia

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    Born and raised in the Queensbridge Houses in Queens, New York City, Nas is self-taught in all the major academic areas of history, philosophy, science, math, English. Marshall Mathers, hip-hop superstar better known as Eminem, dropped out of high school at age 17 and had to repeat ninth grade multiple times. He has gone on record as saying ...

  7. Empowerment - Wikipedia

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    For example, in healthcare, a patient being encouraged by their doctor to track their symptoms and adjust their medication accordingly would be empowerment, where as a patient deciding on their own that they wanted to improve their medication regimen and thus started tracking would be an example of self-empowerment. A recently coined term, self ...

  8. Personal development - Wikipedia

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    The first personal development certification required for business school graduation originated in 2002 as a partnership between Metizo, a personal-development consulting firm, and the Euromed Management School [63] in Marseilles: students must not only complete assignments but also demonstrate self-awareness and achievement of personal ...

  9. Positive psychology - Wikipedia

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    Kirk Schneider, editor of the Journal of Humanistic Psychology, pointed to research showing high positivity correlates with positive illusion, which distorts reality. High positivity or flourishing could make one incapable of psychological growth, unable to self-reflect, and prone to holding racial biases. By contrast, negativity, sometimes ...