It is an issue of limiting beliefs -- or an 'emotional intelligence' gap.

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Limiting beliefs, such as 'I'm not smart enough' or 'I'm not good at math, ' can keep people from attempting more complex challenges.

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They usually made their mark by subverting whatever social, political, or artistic norms, unspoken, arbitrary rules, and limiting beliefs prevailed around them.

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Those limiting beliefs will suck the energy right out of you and cause you to fail or have a setback because they are not finite.

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Limiting beliefs are the operating formulas created by those unspoken rules.

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