Motivation (The Brian Tracy Success Library)

The Command Center

The psychological factor really comes down to a very simple point: the self-concept. The discovery of the self-concept is perhaps the most important breakthrough in the development of human potential in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

The self-concept is the belief structure or value system of the individual. It forms and develops from early childhood and is a composite of all of the emotions, experiences, decisions, education, and events of a person’s life up to the present day. The self-concept determines how a person thinks about himself, feels about himself, and sees himself relative to the rest of the world.

The self-concept is like the command center that sits at the core of personality and productivity. It ...