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worldview about who’s in charge of your life. If you tend to think that the course your life takes is governed by other people, systems, organizations, and circumstances, you’ll tend toward “accepting your fate” and not exerting yourself much to change things. In technical terms, this is called having an external locus of control (the external world is in control of you). If you tend to think otherwise, that you can change the story of your life, you have an internal locus of control and are typically more motivated, more driven, to make changes.
Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential of Our Lives
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