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The Pygmalion Effect: How susceptible are we to other people‘s expectations of us?
An interesting discussion between @craigburgess & @jamierusso introduced me to this concept, a phenomenon that connects high expectations to high performance
An interesting discussion between @craigburgess & @jamierusso introduced me to this concept, a phenomenon that connects high expectations to high performance
Let‘s say someone we respect believes we can knock a challenge of of the park, even if we don‘t believe we can
The result of this expectation and pressure is that we step up, work hard, and meet the new level of expectation
The result of this expectation and pressure is that we step up, work hard, and meet the new level of expectation
Others see our results and also believe we are capable
Eventually we ourselves believe in our capability and the whole thing becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy
Eventually we ourselves believe in our capability and the whole thing becomes a self-fulfilling prophesy
Likewise the whole thing can work in reverse where we lower our self-image to meet people‘s low expectations of us and eventually lose faith in our own abilities
Goes to show to power that we (unwittingly) hold over the people in our network, and how important it is to build them up and raise our expectations of what they can achieve to give them the space to rise to it
If you think about it, we all possess the power to positively change the trajectory of someone else‘s life
Simply by building them up and raising your expectation of what them are capable of
I mean it‘s not x-ray vision or anything, but it‘s a super-power nonetheless!
Simply by building them up and raising your expectation of what them are capable of
I mean it‘s not x-ray vision or anything, but it‘s a super-power nonetheless!
Check out Craig & Jamie‘s excellent conversation here: https://getdoingthings.com/a79f5cb5e14546dfa6135fbcf0d784db
