Love and its implied blindness are helped by such conviction. If it is not believed in, then failure is more possible and less attention to it will reflect in its result. Those that use conscious or sub-conscious tools such as affirmation are at least, devoting more time to it.

Many “believe” that self-belief can be cultured, and it probably can but is more difficult for some and dependent on circumstances. Someone with fifteen kids, for example, cannot with good conscious become a “new me” too easily. Well not to extent that a single person can, so there will always be variables, and always be hope, hopefully. Such family bound people can at least, take smaller steps towards bigger picture. A long-term plan can be initiated and five minutes a day towards it, can surely be found.

That person in a crisis, lifting many times their own weight, can do so because weight itself is not their primary issue and some body chemistry will come to help. This is another component of culturing, and why culturing is possible.

So Joe is more content and secure in his belief, and Liam is insecure and argumentative. No one can really say that either is right. Well they can! But what will work for individual?

“There must be some benefit to belief, I believe”.