Self-Efficacy
Bandura wrote the seminal bool - "Self-efficacy: Toward a Unifying Theory of Behavioural Change" (1977). Mentioned as the key to limitless capacity (confidence) - "Self-efficacy: Toward a Unifying Theory of Behavioural Change" (1977) [1]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-efficacy
Mastery experiences promote it.
People with high self efficacy see challenges as opportunities, not threats. This is the concept of Sublimation and Neuroplastic Sublimation.
Notes
- enactive mastery and fear extinction - see seminal paper [2]