From: http://www.makeyourbestself.com/do-you-believe-the-world-is-out-to-screw-you-if-so-then-it-probably-will-the-power-of-belief/
A lot of people live life with belief sets that severely inhibit their: minds, happiness, and potential. The results of most choices in our lives will be determined by the beliefs that we hold within our minds; one of the most predominant beliefs of people in society is that, in varying degrees, the world is out to get us, or that the game is somehow rigged for us to fail: this belief is a common and debilitating mindset that hinders many people from ever achieving success.
The belief that the world is out to get us, or that there is some sort of larger power at play that prevents us from achieving what we want ranges from conspiracies that the illuminati are secretly in control of the world, to the only way to get rich is to cheat the system. Some people actually believe that the rich only become rich by stepping on others heads along the way to get there, while this may sometimes be the case, it is most certainly not the rule. You can read books by many of the wealthiest and most successful people in the world and they will almost all tell you the stories of hardship and adversity they lived through to obtain success. Most successful and wealthy people want to see others succeed and rise to wealth with them. People who have made millions usually realize that they could give someone 10,000 dollars, but unless that person has the proper beliefs and work ethic, its going to be squandered away in a short time.
The main problem with thinking that things are beyond your control is that it makes things beyond your control. As an example: Let us say you believe it is impossible for you find shoes that fit you, because the companies that make shoes have a rule against people of your shoe size. In this case, you won’t go look for shoes, because you don’t believe they are out there for you, you won’t ask anyone for shoes because you don’t believe they have your size, and you won’t try contacting a shoe company because you believe they don’t want to make your size. Your belief might be so strong that even if someone gave you shoes that were your size, you would still imagine that they don’t fit properly. The moral here is, that just because we believe something doesn’t make it right: just because we see evidence that something is true doesn’t mean it is. There is a thing called a self fulfilling prophecy, and unfortunately the more strongly we believe something, the more evidence we will find in support of the belief.
For the poor man who believes that fortune only comes through inheritance or luck, he has damned himself to a life of poverty. For the young child in the ghetto that believes the only way for a kid to grow up successful in the hood is to deal drugs or get into the NBA, he has already condemned himself to limited potential. For the middle aged woman who believes that she is destined to be overweight because metabolisms slow after age 30, she has already locked the weight onto herself: there may be factors outside of your control, but adversity doesn’t equate to automatic defeat.
If you believe something to be true, you will not act to change it. If you believe something is out of your control, you will not be able to influence it. If you see only pain and suffering in the world, you will find it everywhere you look.
The moment you accept a belief and believe it, it becomes true to you; your mind will search endlessly for data that will confirm and back up your new belief. It is only through consciously viewing, examining, and considering our beliefs that we are able to change them and begin to form new beliefs that better poise us for success.