People with an internal locus of control believe that they are responsible for (or at least can influence) their own fates and life outcomes. They may or may not feel they are leaders, but they feel that they are essentially in charge of their lives… Individuals with an internal locus of control will attribute success to their own efforts ("I tried really hard") and likewise with failure ("I didn’t try hard enough").
Those with external locus of control see themselves as relatively powerless pawns in some game played by others; they believe that other people, environmental forces, the weather, malevolent gods, the alignment of celestial bodies—basically any and all external events exert the most influence on their lives… Individuals with an external focus of control will praise or blame the external world ("It was pure luck" or "The competition was rigged").
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