Hello, this is AJ. Welcome to our next lesson. Today's lesson is called "ldentity." Your identity is what you believe about yourself so this topic is a little bit similar to the topic of beliefs.

Hello, this is AJ. Welcome to our next lesson. Today's lesson is called "ldentity." Your

identity is what you believe about yourself so this topic is a little bit similar to the topic of

beliefs. We've talked a lot about beliefs before remember? Limiting beliefs and

empowering beliefs. Identity is really an important kind of belief or beliefs really, it's a

collection of beliefs, about yourself. The reason this is important, more important than

just normal beliefs, is because these are global beliefs.

Now by global I mean some that affects everything. It covers everything. Global comes

from globe which means all of the world. But we're not internationally here. Here global

means everything, covering everything, about everything. So global beliefs are beliefs

that affect everything else. Your global beliefs affect all your other beliefs. They

influence all your other beliefs. They influence all of your other emotions. They

influence everything. They're kind of the most fundamental beliefs, the core, deepest

beliefs, the central beliefs. And other beliefs come from them.

So you're already been thinking a lot about your beliefs related to English, for example.

But now I want you to think about the beliefs you have about yourself, who you are.

What kind of person you are, what your abilities are. These are very, very important.

You need to choose them because most of us grow up and we learn them from other

people. We don't even know its happening. For example, we grow up thinking we are

citizens of a certain country. And that's true, of course it's true. But if we identify too

much, if that belief is too strong, we can become negative, possibly even violent

towards people from other country. Say "I'm an American. I'm an American, American

is number one! I'm the best. Everyone else sucks." Well, believe it or not, there are

people in the United States who think that. There are people like that in every country.

Obviously this is not a positive belief, not positive for most people. It has a lot of

negative consequences.

So we've got to be careful about our global beliefs, about what we believe about ourself.

More commonly, we have a lot of beliefs about what we can do and what we cannot do.

We have beliefs about ourselves "I am this and I am not that." P'll give you an example

of my own, my own limiting global belief. For many, many, many years I had a belief

"I'm not a good language learner." This was a very strong belief that I had, a global

belief about myself. Now, every time I tried to learn a new language, this belief was

there. Do you think it helped me learn other languages? No, it did not. It had the

opposite effect. It frustrated me. It caused me to quit again and again and again. And

here's what happens. I have this idea in my head from the past "I'm not a good

language learner. I'm a poor language learner."