What beliefs have you changed?

[RT Wolf]

Ahoy everyone,

I'm finding difficulty in thinking of beliefs to change anymore, so I'd really appreciate it if anyone could list/talk about some beliefs they changed and how they did it. Perhaps I'll get some ideas about which ones to change. I think I'm not recognizing them due to familiarity blindness. Some of the more important ones I've changed over the last year:

1. I changed social beliefs. Instead of thinking "I'll do something stupid and people will laugh at me" when I think of talking to a random person, I started thinking, "If I do do something stupid, odds are that person will be too apathetic to remember me." Oddly enough, that was the first step in becoming a more outgoing and social person. There's others I changed, too, but that was the first big one.

2. Failure isn't the end all, it's more of a temporary defeat and a learning experience. I changed this belief the hard way, by taking part in a stand-up competition that was going to be televised nationally while I'm not a stand-up comedian. As you can imagine, I bombed big time. I was pretty depressed for a few weeks, but then I realized that while it had been bad, no one remembers it anymore and I'm still alive. If anything, the friends I had brought along gained more respect for me for taking a big risk like that. This also changed my beliefs about taking risks and I started taking more of them.

3. I can be rich, too. This used to be a vague notion, but after doing a study of personal finance and investing, I realized that I can be rich, too.

4. Realizing that I control my inner state. While I've always been pretty blasé to outside events in terms of my inside (I'm an eternal optimist), I really realized the power of the control I have inside.

I'd appreciate any other belief shifts to more empowering beliefs people have had lately.