Examine the beliefs you formed as a kid and ask if they still serve you. If you don't consciously choose what you think about yourself, you hand control to other people and waste your potential.
Now, one of the things that is important is once you get in a belief is a lot of people haven't chosen or come back in adulthood to reevaluate based on where they are in their current career, about what it is they believe. Do you still believe what you believed when you were 8 years old? I think what the question you're asking is, the thoughts, being conscious about the thoughts that you choose to believe about yourself, about the world and the actions that you want, the results you want in life, then you're really doing yourself a disservice. Because if you're not consciously choosing what you want in life and what you want to believe, you've left it to everybody else. You've put that responsibility on them to fill your ideas with what's possible for you and what results are available to you.
