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Exploring the topics of workplace psychology and conscious leadership. Amanda is an award-winning Chartered Psychologist, with vast amounts of experience in talent strategy, resilience, facilitation, development and executive coaching. A Fellow of the Association for Business Psychology and an Associate Fellow of the Division of Occupational Psychology within the British Psychological Society (BPS), Amanda is also a Chartered Scientist. Amanda is a founder CEO of Zircon and is an expert in leadership in crisis, resilience and has led a number of research papers on the subject; most recently Psychological Safety in 2022 and Resilience and Decision-making in 2020. With over 20 years’ experience on aligning businesses’ talent strategy with their organizational strategy and objectives, Amanda has had a significant impact on the talent and HR strategies of many global organizations, and on the lives of many significant and prominent leaders in industry. Dr Amanda Potter can be contacted on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/amandapotterzircon www.theCPO.co.uk
The Chief Psychology Officer
Ep34 Turn Self-Limiting Beliefs into Liberating Ones
Self-limiting beliefs have the potential to negatively impact our lives. They can hold us back and prompt us to make fear-based decisions, which can at times, lead to the very same painful experiences they have been created to help us avoid. If we do not take action and challenge these beliefs, we can stay stuck in the damaging cycle. It is important to create empowering beliefs which help us to move forward and accomplish everything we set our mind to achieve.
This podcast episode takes a deep dive into self-limiting beliefs, looking at where they come from, why they stick around, the neuroscientific perspective, and a number of strategies to help stop these beliefs from controlling your life. We also discuss how we can turn these self-limiting beliefs into liberating beliefs (thank you Matthew Benjamin AKA Bushwacka for the concept to research).
In this episode, Amanda is being interviewed by Angela Malik
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Timestamps
Self-Limiting Beliefs
· 00:00 – Introduction to Self-Limiting Beliefs
· 00:56 – What are Self-Limiting Beliefs?
· 01:31 – I’m limited to what I can write here…
· 02:18 – Reality is what you make of it
· 02:57 – I no longer smoke!
· 04:05 – Healthy Habits
· 04:53 – Environmental factors
Childhood days of yore
· 05:37 – Think back to your childhood…
· 06:56 – Adults can be childish too
· 08:00 – Bias Revisited
· 09:24 – I’m bad at parties, and I want everyone else to see it!
· 10:41 – It runs skin deep
· 11:14 – External Locus of Control
· 12:19 – When you look in the mirror…
· 13:23 – Metrics of Success
Now I’m at work…
· 14:31 – Sounds a bit like Imposter Syndrome
· 15:35 – Impact & React
· 16:04 – Neuroscience!
· 17:06 – Impaired judgement
· 18:03 – I remember…
· 19:19 – The Three Musketeers
Taking steps
· 20:06 – Stop!
· 22:14 – What is real?
· 23:10 – I’m open to second opinions
· 24:29 – Take back control!
· 25:05 – What a Self-Limiting Belief sounds like
· 26:24 – I’m not an influencer, but I do contribute
· 27:34 – Summary
· 28:49 – You’re my best friend
· 29:57 – A future exercise
· 30:41 – The end.
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Welcome to this episode of the Chief Psychology Officer with Dr. Amanda Potter, Chartered Psychologist and CEO of Zircon. I'm Angela Malik, and today we'll be looking at self-limiting beliefs and how to overcome them. Thank you, Angela. So Amanda, how did you select this topic for the podcast?
Dr Amanda Potter:So if you remember, Angela, in our podcast with Matthew Benjamin, we talked about the importance of understanding and recognizing our self beliefs. And in that interview with Matthew, he really inspired us because he was talking very much about turning those self limiting beliefs into self liberating ones. And I thought that concept was wonderful. And so today, I would love to have that as our our focus for this episode.
Angela Malik:Yes I do remember that episode. I love the juxtaposition of self-limiting versus self-liberating beliefs. So Amanda what are self-limiting beliefs?
Dr Amanda Potter:Self-limiting beliefs are the stories we wake up and repeatedly tell ourselves that as a result of that repetition they become part of our identity and it's that repetition that's really key. Because when we repeat something, we end up believing it. And those beliefs constrain us in some way. So just by believing them, they stop us from thinking or behaving in a way that could be enabling or self-supporting, but become limiting.
Angela Malik:How do you know if you have a belief that is limiting?
Dr Amanda Potter:So when your internal dialogue or your language is negative or limiting, it's a self-limiting belief. For example, if you were to tell yourself, Angela, there's something that you can't do, you shouldn't do, or you couldn't do, then your language will send an unconscious belief to yourself that may prevent you from doing the things that you could have done or even should have done without those thoughts.
Angela Malik:I suppose it's like if you wanted to run a marathon, but you told yourself over and over, I can't can't or I won't have time or this will prevent me or that will prevent me then you'll never get there because you're too busy focused on all those hurdles.
Dr Amanda Potter:A marathon is a great example of many people have a self-limiting belief around marathon running.
Angela Malik:What's the impact of having self-limiting beliefs?
Dr Amanda Potter:They send us a false reality. And it results in us acting in ways that match the beliefs. So if we have a self-limiting belief, what it does is it almost creates a standard that we live against. And this is what holds us back from progressing or learning. And so it really forms our thinking and forms the way we see ourselves.
Angela Malik:How does it hold you back?
Dr Amanda Potter:Actually, one of our colleagues and consultants that we work with, who I was in Texas with just a few weeks before recording this podcast, he gave me a great example. Imagine you're giving up smoking and someone asked you about it. If you have a self-limiting belief around smoking, you would say, I'm a smoker, I've been a smoker for many years, but I'm trying to give up. However, if you had a self-liberating belief, you would say, I no longer smoke. And that would be reflected in your attitude and your behavior.
Angela Malik:This does raise the question, though, do you actually have to believe these things or do you just say them until they're true, sort of fake it till you make it? I love that
Dr Amanda Potter:you've said that, Angela, because the fake it till you make it concept was actually a working title for one of our white papers, because I'm someone who believes that I do fake it till I make it. I tell myself that I can be good at something until the point that I actually am. I don't fake it with other people, but I fake it with myself. Whilst it's not very much liked to think about faking or fooling yourself, it's actually quite a good strategy. Because if you tell yourself something repeatedly, you start to believe it. And if we can do that about good things, then we can start to believe the positives rather than the negatives.
Angela Malik:That seems like a good strategy for instilling healthy habits or changing bad ones. It
Dr Amanda Potter:really is. So if you take the research by James Clear and his book, Atomic Habits, and thank you, John, by the way, for the introduction to the book. If we want to change habits, we need to change our identity rather than our goals. So you need to change your language from the very self-limiting language to the self-liberating language for example that smoking example I gave you earlier I'm quitting smoking versus I'm no longer a smoker or if we use the running example we've been talking about I'm trying to start running versus I am a runner and so our language is really quite key in how we approach habits and how our beliefs
Angela Malik:impact
Dr Amanda Potter:us.
Angela Malik:Interestingly doesn't James give the tip that if you want to change the habit you need to change the environment?
Dr Amanda Potter:Yeah he completely does and So in his book, he very much talks about environment being key in order to create and embed habits. It's not only about the language you use, but actually the environment you're in and the environment you create. So if I surround myself with chocolates and pretzels and nuts for Christmas, then I'm going to make it much harder for myself to embed those healthy habits. But if I surround myself with healthy foods and low fat products, it's going to be much easier for me to remain healthy and to have healthy habits.
Angela Malik:To be fair I think pretzels are healthy but maybe that's just me. So where do we get self-limiting beliefs?
Dr Amanda Potter:The research says they're often created in childhood and in particular when we go through a challenging or notable event in our life. So what happens to us when we experience threat or we experience a situation where we feel like we are vulnerable, then the beliefs that we have in these periods at these times attach to us and can potentially hold us back from putting ourselves at risk again or feeling vulnerable again and basically are there to protect us to make sure we don't feel challenged, threatened or vulnerable again in the future.
Angela Malik:The most common self-limiting beliefs must be around how you see yourself. For example, I'm not smart enough. I'm not good enough.
Dr Amanda Potter:I mean, they do classify self-limiting beliefs and they're exactly the types that you're talking about. So it could be about money. I never make enough money or I could never make enough money or I'm not good with money. Or another one would be around relationships that I will never be able to find a partner or I will never be seen as desirable by another person or I don't deserve to be loved. So they're really quite significant beliefs that some people tell themselves. Words in people's heads can be pretty harsh.
Angela Malik:Is it only events that happen in childhood that shape our beliefs?
Dr Amanda Potter:No, but childhood is a really significant part of how we create those beliefs. And it's the messaging that we hear when we're young. So if you think back, Angela, to the way your parents spoke to you and I think back to the way my parents spoke to me, the comments that they make about your school performance or about sports day or how you achieved a test and how you worked towards that test can really hit home and we start to internalize it. One of the ones that has a great impact is when those observations appear judgmental. So it could be around weight gain or it could be around dress sense or as we grow through puberty as when we're young adults how our bodies change all of those things start to have a real impact on individuals and we start to see ourselves through the eyes and through the comments of the people that we respect and admire in other words our parents
Angela Malik:and what about self-limiting beliefs in the workplace what sorts of thoughts might those be so there's a number
Dr Amanda Potter:of self-limiting beliefs that we could have in the workplace and fundamentally they're driven by biases and so we've done some interesting research recently looking at the different biases that might hold ourselves back from presenting ourselves as confident and having belief. And these biases might potentially contribute to imposter syndrome, the feeling of being an imposter. So there's a big link between self-limiting beliefs, bias and imposter syndrome.
Angela Malik:Can you give an example of this?
Dr Amanda Potter:So one example might be pessimism bias. So with pessimism bias, what you're doing is you're thinking quite self-critically about the situation, about your role and the inner dialogue that a person might have would be very negative and would be focusing on the problems. And so as a result, they might be focusing on the areas in which they're not good or they might be self-discrediting any ideas that they're having or presenting and focusing on the negatives or the gaps that they have rather than focusing on the positives. So the self-limiting belief in terms of PESA Pessimism is very much that I'm not good enough or my work's not good enough and focusing on the things that are lacking or not strong about you. I
Angela Malik:can see how that might hold someone back from gunning for a promotion, for example, or really engaging with their colleagues if they feel that their colleagues are achieving so much more than they are, for example.
Dr Amanda Potter:They could, and it may not just be pessimism bias. I mean, there's a number of different biases, as I mentioned. Another one is control bias. So people who have the external locus of control bias, they believe that they do not have the power to influence outcomes and they feel like they lack personal control and they're not in charge of their own destiny. And so they have this belief that they are unable to make any difference in overcoming adversity or making a change in their life. And no matter what they do, they're not going to be able to influence or change outcomes or create success. So everything's down to luck, fate or destiny. So what's the trying and so these beliefs can have a profound and fundamental impact on how we see ourselves and therefore how prepared we are to try hard and do something differently in order to succeed versus well what will be will be fate is fate and I have no power anyway so what's the point of trying hard because I'm never going to succeed and everyone's going to be better than me anyway which is a bit of a combination there of pessimism bias and control bias.
Angela Malik:I suppose like in childhood these messages get embedded and then they become part of our identity if we let them.
Dr Amanda Potter:They really do. I know I've had some quite strong self-limiting beliefs in my life.
Angela Malik:In a way, I kind of understand why they get embedded like that. It's a lot easier to accept a negative thing about ourselves if we sort of believe that that's just who we are rather than something we can change. Because if we fail to change them, then it's our fault. So in a way, that self-limiting belief is almost like it's there to protect you.
Dr Amanda Potter:And that external locus control bias is exactly that. If we have that thought that we don't have the power to influence outcomes, to change our environment and to create successes, then it's not our fault. As you say, it's not down to me, it's down to everybody else. It's everyone else's problem, not mine. And so it comes from a good place, as do many things in psychology, that they're there to protect us, but actually the outcome and the actions and the behavior that result from it are not great. And so it It could be around weight. It could be that someone would say that, you know, I'm a fat person. I'm not meant to be slim. I've never been slim. I can't be slim. It could be around alcohol. It could be around any of those things that people could overuse or abuse and beliefs around them. And the same with work. It could be if I don't get this 100% right and I don't do the very best I can do every time that I won't be valued, that I won't have a place in this organization, which could be perfectionism bias
Angela Malik:yes and ultimately that sounds really counterproductive actually it is I guess the most common self-limiting beliefs must be about how you see yourself for example I'm not smart enough I'm not good enough
Dr Amanda Potter:yeah
Angela Malik:or
Dr Amanda Potter:I will never be successful I'll never make enough money I will never find someone who loves me there's so many ways which we could put ourselves down and not believe in ourselves and have these self-limiting beliefs about what we can achieve on what we can do.
Angela Malik:Self-limiting beliefs sound quite depressing, to be honest.
Dr Amanda Potter:That's why they're self-limiting. and not necessarily fact or true? And how can we change them into liberating beliefs?
Angela Malik:All of these self-limiting categories that we've mentioned, they seem to be sort of success metrics, how we measure ourselves against either others or even our own benchmarks for success.
Dr Amanda Potter:And I think that's a very good point. And that's because we hold ourselves in comparison to others. We see our level of happiness through the reflection of other people or how happy we are in comparison to other people. But actually it's for us to really assess ourselves against what we would like or what we would deem to be good for us. And so I think we need to stop making all the comparisons.
Angela Malik:So we have categories of self-limiting beliefs. Are there other ways of articulating self-limiting beliefs?
Dr Amanda Potter:There are. So some of the language psychologists might use are learned helplessness, for example, or people might talk about worthlessness or external locus of control. And so So there's a number of little psychology terms that people will use but I think the term self-limiting is much more useful because it really describes what we do when we articulate those negative words inside our head.
Angela Malik:The way you've described these self-limiting beliefs it sounds quite similar to another concept that we all know which is imposter syndrome. Are these the same thing?
Dr Amanda Potter:So they're not the same but they are definitely similar. Imposter syndrome is actually a result of self-limiting beliefs. We can get imposter syndrome due to the chatter that we have in our heads. And this chatter is actually a negative thought loop that results in us questioning our ability or capability, which leads to the feeling of I'm not good enough, I'm not worthy, and therefore imposter syndrome.
Angela Malik:So that chatter imprints on our brain, doesn't it?
Dr Amanda Potter:Yeah. So the chatter creates beliefs that are like internal commands to the brain. And this is a representation of what we believe is happening, but in fact, of course, may not be fact or may not be true. And they act as a filter for the external and the internal world. So yeah, the chatter has a significant impact in the way we see ourselves and see our position and place in the world.
Angela Malik:So self-limiting beliefs come from your subconscious and they impact your thoughts, which in turn impact your actions and how you see the world. Beliefs serve as the basis for how you react to events throughout life.
Dr Amanda Potter:Indeed. So the longer the self-destructive beliefs are allowed to continue, the more embedded they become within your self-conscious, which is, of course, extremely resistant to change. And the more they are embedded in your subconscious, the more they will limit you. From a neuroscience perspective, how do these self-limiting beliefs get created? So looking at the neuroscience, there are three contributing structures in the brain that help to create and continue the loop of self-limiting beliefs. The first is down to the cerebellum, which is a structure located at the back of the brain. And the challenging experiences that we go through create negative thinking. This negativity actually decreases activity in the cerebellum, which has the impact of slowing down the brain coordination, which impacts the ability to process new information. This limitation then limits the ability to practice creative problem solving. And all of this means that we cannot think creatively for an alternative path when we're processing negative information. If we think about a self-limiting belief being negative information, what we're doing is that we're reducing our ability to problem solve, look at alternatives and innovate. It sounds like it's inhibiting judgment It completely is inhibiting judgment. And that's a great segue to the second aspect of the brain, which is impacted via self-limiting beliefs, which is the prefrontal cortex, because the prefrontal cortex is responsible for judgment. This structure helps us to decide what information to pay attention to and how important it is. So the more you focus on negativity, the more synapses and neurons your brain will create around this memory, supporting the negative thought process. So if you remember, Angela, the amygdala is the emotion center and it balances with the prefrontal cortex. So therefore, in summary, the negative thoughts that you can have turn into the self-limiting beliefs that you experience due to the reinforcement of these thoughts and the focus of the prefrontal cortex on these thoughts.
Angela Malik:That reminds me of something I read about how if you consistently expose yourself to negative thoughts and experience The amygdala actually grows in size and the prefrontal cortex shrinks. Is that right? That's completely right.
Dr Amanda Potter:And that will definitely contribute to the self-limiting beliefs. The third structure, Angela, of the brain which is involved is the hippocampus, which is located in the temporal lobe or in the middle. The hippocampus provides the context of stored memories, which is the emotional tone that we have. When we think back about a story or a memory, how do we feel about that memory? And the hippocampus can potentially rewire your brain by creating stronger neural pathways and synapses so that you think and feel about a situation with an emotion that can be so deeply ingrained that you'll have to work incredibly hard to dismantle the negative connections and rewire your brain in a positive way in order to prevent it from turning into a self-limiting belief so the hippocampus is all about the emotional tone the feeling that we have of the memory of that event and they're then the How do these three brain structures work together? So given what we've heard about the cerebellum, the prefrontal cortex and the hippocampus, our brains are wired to protect us from threat. Thank you to the amygdala. And therefore we pay great attention to previous risks and place great importance on them, which overemphasizes them and means that we are rewired to avoid them. which means they become self-limiting beliefs.
Angela Malik:What can we do then to try and overcome these self-limiting beliefs that can be so deeply ingrained in our brains? So we have identified four
Dr Amanda Potter:strategies to help people overcome the self-limiting beliefs that we very often experience in our daily lives. The first one is to stop. And it is to reflect and put the belief into perspective. If you are feeling resistance to an activity and you are stopping yourself from acting or behaving in a certain way, and you're telling yourself that you can't do something, you are probably experiencing what Huberman would call limbic friction. This is when you're almost arguing with yourself about an activity or something you need to do. And when you're in that state, you might become aware that you are telling yourself that you shouldn't, you can't, you don't have the capability, that you're not able to do something and that you may feel very negative at that point. And so you might have low mood thinking, which is where your feelings and your emotions, your negative feelings, your negative emotions impact the way you see yourself, your capability and your ability to engage in that action. So when you have those thoughts, this recommendation is to stop, to think about the beliefs that you are having, the chatter that's going on inside your head and understand what are you telling yourself and where do those thoughts come from and how bad is it? Is it as bad as you're making it out to be? How true is it? And what's the worst thing that could happen if you did do the thing? How likely is those bad things going to be if you did do them or if you didn't do them? And can you put them into perspective?
Angela Malik:So essentially, when you start to feel negative, that's kind of a red flag. You can look for that moment of, oh, this is a signal to stop. When you
Dr Amanda Potter:recognize the words inside your head starting to use that very negative language or start to tell yourself that this isn't possible, this isn't feasible, that you're not good enough. That is one of the red flags.
Angela Malik:It's definitely important to take a moment to reflect so you don't get too caught up in the negativity. What about the other strategies? So that was the first one. What's the next one?
Dr Amanda Potter:So the first
Angela Malik:is to
Dr Amanda Potter:stop and reflect and to challenge yourself and to get perspective and balance. And the next is to test the reality and recognize the falsehood of the belief. So once you've identified the thought and you have got the balance and perspective, which is number one, write it down. and consider what's the proof, what evidence is there. So you're essentially testing the
Angela Malik:validity.
Dr Amanda Potter:Very true. So... You need to check, is there any evidence for your thinking or are you just jumping to negative conclusions? Are your thoughts factual or is it just your interpretation? Is it just a belief? Because you need to think about how that belief has limited you in the past and understand the full extent of what that belief is doing to you and what it's stopping you from doing.
Angela Malik:So essentially you're challenging
Dr Amanda Potter:your thinking in that moment. Yes, you are. You're definitely stopping, reflecting, getting the balance of a looking for the evidence, looking to challenge your thinking. And what's the third strategy? So the third strategy is to look for alternative explanations. How can you disprove it? What other evidence exists that opposes these self-limiting beliefs? And ask yourself, are there other ways you could look at this? What else could this information mean? And if I was to think more positively, how else could I see myself? And thinking about it, how else would other people speak to you? Maybe your best friend or a family member. How would they say it? If you wanted to change a belief. you need an enabling belief that can replace the old one. And so you need to gather as much evidence as possible for empowering beliefs to replace your self-limiting ones. And if you find it really hard to tell yourself good things, maybe you could start by some of the great things that your best friends or family members or the people that you love have told you about yourself and replace some of those negative ones with the good ones that other people see in you.
Angela Malik:That's really positive advice. tricky when you're looking for alternative explanations because we have a natural bias to look for things that actually confirm rather than oppose our beliefs. I know we do
Dr Amanda Potter:have a complete natural bias towards the negativity and so really the final strategy is about taking back control and really robustly describing the self-liberating beliefs that will help you to succeed. What are the positive affirmations that you really like and you believe about yourself that other people might say about you and you think yeah actually I am a good person for example and really make sure you write those down and refer to those when you're struggling and so working out your positive affirmations working out your self-liberating beliefs and working out the areas in which you really see yourself to be a good person is so so important
Angela Malik:so amanda can you give me an example of what a self-liberating belief might sound like against a self-limiting belief something to replace that limiting thought The
Dr Amanda Potter:obvious one, given the control bias we were talking about earlier, is the self limiting belief of being powerless versus powerful. And so given the points that we've already discussed about how can we start to replace those self limiting beliefs with self liberating beliefs, the key is to identify the things that you can control and focus your attention and energy on the things that are within your control, because all of us have some things that we're within our control and to recognise that in those situations that you can be decisive, that you can influence outcomes and that you can focus on the things where you make a difference. And so by focusing on the small areas where you are in control can alleviate any stress and anxiety that you may feel or experience when you feel quite overwhelmed or that you personally are only a very small cog in a very big machine. That's the first one. So how can you focus on the small areas where you are in control and you do feel like your decisions make a difference and that you make an impact.
Angela Malik:So looking at this really specifically then, if we had an example of someone who was on a team where the goal was to develop and sell a product, if the self-limiting belief is no matter what I do, I won't be able to influence whether that product gets sold, then perhaps the self-liberating alternative to that would be, I have control of my contribution to this aspect of the design. And that part of the design is going to ultimately help sell this product.
Dr Amanda Potter:Absolutely. So you need to stop having that very macro lens of yourself being at sea and having feeling like you have very limited impact or power to being very specific and thinking at a micro level. What are the things that I can influence? What are the things that are within my control? And even if it's a very small level, what difference do I make to this project, to this product or to my customers? When you start to see that and hear it and verbalize it, you realize that actually you do have power, you do have influence and you can change outcomes, even if in a small way.
Angela Malik:So the four strategies are to put that belief into perspective, test the reality of it, look for alternative explanations and Yeah, you're absolutely
Dr Amanda Potter:right. And I think that's a great summary. I think those four points are really the key for changing self-limiting beliefs to self-liberating beliefs. And I think we have to remember that we alone are in command of our thoughts and therefore our lives, because we have to remember that a thought is just a thought. It's not a truth and it will pass. So we need to take as much power away from the negative thoughts as possible. And remember, we need to challenge ourselves and ask ourselves the question, how does thinking like this help me to feel good or help me to be happy or help me to achieve my goals? And if thinking like this does not help me to achieve any of those three things, we need to start acting in a way that will overcome those negative beliefs. And we need to start believing the empowering beliefs I've got
Angela Malik:my own addition to the list and it's kind of plays off of something you've already said, which is to remember to treat yourself like you would a close friend or loved one. So the internal chatter that we have with ourselves, it's often very far away from how we would ever, ever talk to a friend.
Dr Amanda Potter:Oh, goodness. I agree. Sarah has always said to me that if I spoke to her, like I talked to myself, that we would be done often. after 22 years of being in business together and 30 years of being best friends but so thank goodness I don't but it's completely right I would never speak to anyone friends or foes in the way I speak to myself it's a great lesson I need to be as nice to myself as I am to other people
Angela Malik:same I think it's just human nature it's a great reminder to be nice to ourselves be kind and appreciate the things that we have to offer as well
Dr Amanda Potter:I agree I think this is a very important podcast I think we We are all prone to self limiting beliefs, but I think the four steps that we've talked through, Angela, are a great reminder that we all need to do the very best we can to turn those limiting beliefs into self liberating ones.
Angela Malik:It would be a great exercise to just come up with one self limiting belief and turn that into a self liberating belief. go through the four steps and then come up with that affirmation at the end that's going to really empower us to change our thought process. I agree.
Dr Amanda Potter:Some of them are more sticky than others. So for some of them, the small ones, they're going to be quite easy to change. But there's some very embedded beliefs that many of us have that take some time. And so if we go back to the Healthy Habits podcast and the research around that, the best way is to break it down into micro habits, smaller elements and work on each of those smaller elements. elements first, and so we can build up to the big belief, if you like.
Angela Malik:Well, thank you, Amanda, for giving us some great tips to overcome our self-limiting beliefs. And if our listeners have any comments or questions or suggestions on what we've spoken about today, you can contact Dr. Amanda Potter on LinkedIn. If you enjoy listening to the Chief Psychology Officer podcast, please like Zircon on LinkedIn. Thank you so much,
Dr Amanda Potter:everyone, for listening, and I hope you have a lovely day.