How did your self-concept develop? Were you born the person you are today, or are you the product of your learning experiences? And if you're not happy with the result, do you just have to live with it, or is this something you have the ability to change?
While everyone understands that past experience has affected their life, many people underestimate how much it influences beliefs, emotions and attitudes in the present. We define ourselves in terms of our memories; even those that we don't consciously recall. The product of those memories is stored in the mind, and controls what we...