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Hello and welcome to episode 203 of the Mindful Kind podcast. In this episode I'll be talking

all about self-fulfilling prophecies. You'll find out what a self-fulfilling prophecy is and

some of my own experiences with them,

how they can stop you from achieving great things and how they can help you achieve great things.

I'm so excited to share more on this topic because it's something many people don't fully understand,

but it can actually have quite a big impact throughout your life.

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So first of all, I thought I'd explain what a self-fulfilling prophecy actually is.

Back in 1968, an American sociologist named Robert K. Merton defined the self-fulfilling

prophecy as a false definition of the situation, evoking a new behavior which makes the

originally false conception come true. Basically, this means that you believe something false,

which makes you act a certain way, so that the false belief actually comes true.

I think it makes a bit more sense with an example, so here is a self-fulfilling prophecy that I've experienced.

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