Activity Title: What Is Your Locus Of Control?

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Activity Title: What is your locus of control?
1. The locus of control is how an individual perceives their level of influence on what happens around them and to them. An internal locus of control would indicate a higher perceived influence and an external locus of control would regard everything to be influenced more heavily by external forces.
2. My self-assessment had me at 20, suggesting that I have a very internal locus of control. I believe the analysis to be accurate. I very much believe that my success and failure is within my control and my destiny is carved by what I do with my life rather than by chance or other external influences. I take the positive and turn it into to something better, and I take the negative and re-work it

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