After studying this chapter, you should be able to do the following:

1. Explain how our behavioral choices largely shape the world in which we live and yet are also shaped by the world in terms of factors such as rewards, laws, and rules.
2. Understand how behavior takes place at two levels, an observable physical level and an unobservable mental level, and how self-leadership strategies influence behavior at both levels.
3. Recognize how we as persons, our behavior, and our world are closely related and have important influences on one another.
4. Describe how the practice of self-leadership is affected by our unique tendencies.
5. Recognize that we choose our own behavior.