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Locus of Control

Today I want to talk a bit about a new term that I recently learnt. “Locus of Control” and how this concept can affect us achieving our goals. What is the Locus of Control? According to Google   “In personality psychology, locus of control is the degree to which people believe that they have control over the outcome of events in their lives, as opposed to external forces beyond their control” Which is saying that the results that you are producing in any area of your life is a because of your behaviour and choices or it can be to be blamed solely to external forces There are two types of Locus of Control according to psychologists, Internal and External. When hard/pressing times are met do you think you have what it takes to pull through or do you think that the outside forces are in complete control?  If you think that you have control then you are governed by Internal Locus of Control and if you think the latter then you have w...