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Self-efficacy and why your characters need it

hi friends, i'm back with another post! today, we're looking at motivation and how your characters' beliefs affect their goals. let's jump into it!

Why is it important?

Self-efficacy has a huge influence on performance. If you go into a test telling yourself you will fail anyway cause you're not smart enough to pass, you will most likely fail. However, if you have high self-efficacy, you wouldn't be discouraged by the challenge and also not care about failures/setbacks so much.

What is self-efficacy?

"Self-efficacy" was made famous by the psychologist Albert Bandura (who also did loads of other fun stuff). It describes someone's belief in their ability to get to a desired outcome- aka someone's belief they have the ability to reach their goals. There's "self-efficacy expectation", which is the belief you can execute specific behaviors, and "outcome expectation", which is the belief that those actions will in fact lead to your goal.

How is it developed?

There are three main ways those expectations are formed:

Performance accomplishments (when you succeed at something)

Vicarious experience (watching someone else succeed)

Verbal persuasion (getting praised/encouraged)

What's this got to do with my characters?

Every character has a goal (source: trust me bro). However, the way characters go about reaching their goals can (and should) vary a bunch! As we just learned, self-efficacy has loads to do with self-image and the belief in your own ability. Those are not innate- which means they are formed through experience. When you look at your character's backstory, do they experience lots of setbacks? Do they recover quickly? If so, that would mean they have high self-efficacy. How did they form that? And if not: What has led to your characters having low self-efficacy? Answering those questions will make your characters feel way more consistent and, therefore, realistic!

Learned helplessness

A "fun" phenomena you might have heard about, best illustrated with an experiment by psychologist Martin Seligman: Imagine you have a dog in a box with a small obstacle in the middle that divides it into two spaces. The floor of the space the dog sits in gets electrified, giving the dog a shock, and he jumps into the other space in which he is safe. Now, if you do the same but electrify both spaces (ergo giving the dog "no escape"), the dog learns his actions don't change his situation. And even when experimenters stopped doing shocks on both sides, the dog just sat there and accepted his fate without even trying to get to the other (safe) side. While cruel as hell, this teaches us something about our characters: There will be situations in which a character has learned their actions don't matter, and it will influence their behavior in the future. For example, a character that has learned speaking up about their opinion will get them ignored or dismissed, they will continue to hold the belief their opinion doesn't matter even when in a different group setting.

As you can see, self-efficacy influences humans- and therefore characters- quite a lot! You're probably already writing with it in the back of your mind when writing fleshed-out characters. If not, thinking about your characters self-efficacy can really help making their backstory shine through in their actions. Please use my psychology knowledge for good (exam season is killing me). Happy writing!

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now 2 beanie baby dragons are crossing your dash together :3

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Well, I guess I gonna bite someone so their wishes as spiderverse persona *shrug*

a wizard is going to turn you into a random animal! whether you like it or not! how nice of them! spin the wheel to find out which class your new species belongs to (and then probably do a google).

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Someone please tell me to write in the worst way possible. Like threaten me I need to write someone please help

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“write what you know” is boring. i write what haunts me at 3am.

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Free Manual Wheelchair Reference Models

ID: A banner with grey 3D models of 5 kinds of manual wheelchairs in a line in front of the disability pride flag and text that reads "Manual Wheelchair References" /End ID

For disability pride month, I decided to release a pack of 3D manual wheelchair models.

The pack includes 5 wheelchairs:

2 Active urban-style chairs (one of which includes a smart drive)

1 off-road active chair

1 children's wheelchair

and 1 standard "hospital" wheelchair).

All the wheelchairs are based off either wheelchairs I or friends of mine have used

Downloadable here!

or on the Clip Studio Paint Asset Store (ID 2097442) (there's been an issue with the CSP version, but the models in the download folder can be imported into clip studio paint until I can fix it)

More info about the download contents below:

The first download link includes the original .Blend file with all 5 chairs, as well as individual .obj or .fbx files the chairs (All but 1 have an .obj file, as they're only meshes. The chair with the smart drive is rigged, which is why it has an .Fbx file instead so it will retain that information) as well as a "read me" file that explains in more depth what kind of disability/character/lifestyle each chair is made for (These are just what I had in mind when I designed them, they are usable by other characters who don't fit the suggestions for the most part!) I wanted to include the Read Me contents in the CSP Asset Store listing, but CS said it was too long lol.

Also, as the title says, these files are free to use! While it's not mandatory, I would appreciate credit if you use them (or even just a tag so I can see the cool art you make with them!!)

I actually made these ages ago, the original plan was to use them in a series of posts then release the pack, but I never got around to making the series and so they've just been sitting here. I took a day off from art fight attacks to clean them all up and get them ready to post. If you experience any issues, let me know and I'll try to fix it up.

I had a couple more that were supposed to be in the pack including a sports (basketball/Tennis) wheelchair and some different styles of wheelchair, but I think the files corrupted so once I fix (or remake) them, I'll probably make a second pack.

If you have any issues, please let me know!

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Throwing the government down and made a new system that cares about people

#78 How does your character do with a discriminatory world, culture, or home life?

prompt by: theeldritchdarling

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(I love Elysia so don't mind me using her GIF as my book's announcement😎)

Valentine/Galentine Day's Special

Hi, buddies. We meet again🍀

I have a special present for you, please check it out on my Wattpad @genkininja21 or you can click here👇

I hope you enjoy the lores💛🙂‍↕️

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Me *finished writing one of my lores*: Alright, let's go finishing my first ever written lore!

Me, the next few months: *writing the sequel of the finished lore*

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me when someone abruptly asks me if i want to go and do something fun together but the fun thing wasn't part of my daily plan:

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escaping reality and satisfying my high standard of fiction

writing is so fun

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Good trope: Character yelling, "It's not what it looks like!" while doing exactly what it looks like.

Great trope: Character yelling, "It's not what it looks like!" while doing something so unfathomable that the person who interrupted them can't even begin to attempt to figure out what the hell it is they're seeing.

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characters have to be a little bit awful in ways that you cant defend. its good for the ecosystem. your honor he did do that. He did in fact do that

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Takes a guy who's obsessed with saving people even if it risks his life and a guy who is literally allergic to asking for help in any situation and puts them in My stew puts them in my fucking stew and stirs it