Welcome to today's episode of the Mindset Mentor podcast. I am your host, Rob Dial. If you have not yet

done so, hit that subscribe button so you never miss another podcast episode. I put out episodes

four times a week to help you learn and grow and improve yourself

because if you can improve yourself, you can improve your life. And that's ultimately what I want

to help you do. Today, I'm going to talk to you about how you scientifically, whatever it is that

you expect, you usually end up creating in your life. And I want you to think about this.

Is it possible to expect something to happen? And just by you to think about this, is it possible to expect something to happen and just

by you expecting it to happen, you make it to happen? It's actually something that's called a

pygmalion effect. It is a psychological phenomenon where whatever you expect of someone,

they will create within themselves. So what you expect in others, what you also expect within

yourself, you will actually create in others or you'll create in yourself. And this is super

important for parents. It's important for teachers. It's important if you are a manager,

a leader in some sort of way, any in work environment, but also any

relationship that you have with another person. I'm going to give you a couple studies that have to

deal specifically with children, but then I'm also going to give you studies after that that

deal specifically with adults. And so when I'm speaking about children, it ain't just children.

It's just living, breathing humans. At its core, the pygmalion effect happens when

one person's expectations for another person's behavior actually brings that behavior to reality.

And so basically, I expect someone to be a certain way and they actually will be that way.

Where this came from was in 1968 there was a study that was done by Rosenthal and Jacobson.

And what happened was they were curious if we take a group of children and we bring them into

a classroom and we tell the teacher something about some of the students, could that change based off of the teacher's

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