Psychologists have a term "self efficacy" -- as far as I remember from my graduate educational psychology courses, the best predictor of whether someone will su

Psychologists have a term "self efficacy" -- as far as I remember from my graduate educational psychology courses, the best predictor of whether someone will succeed in learning something challenging is whether they believe they can do it. Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-efficacy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-efficacy