The beliefs we borrow and the ones we lend - Shelflife Magazine

The beliefs we borrow and the ones we lend - Shelflife Magazine

There’s a concept doing the rounds lately that I’m obsessed with ‘borrowed beliefs.’ The idea is simple: many of the things we believe aren’t truly ours. They’ve been handed to us by family, friends, bosses, or society. We absorb them, often without question, and they shape the way we see the world. In recruitment, I see it every day: candidates limiting themselves based on beliefs that were never truly their own. “I’m not management material.” …