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In

this episode of the Warrior Mind Podcast I’m going to be talking about how our

beliefs can affect our actions and create self-fulfilling prophecies.

Beliefs, Performance and Self-fulfilling Prophecies

A

self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that causes itself to be true due to

the behavior (including the act of predicting it) of the believer.

Self-fulling, here, means “brought about as a result of being foretold or

talked about,” while prophecy refers to the prediction.

There is a direct correlation between human behavior and the

beliefs held by individuals such that human experiences confirm our suspicions

about them. These are self-fulfilling prophecies that have considerable

influence on social capability. They make individuals believe what they see and

their perception and interpretation as valid. Based on what you believe, there

can either be positive growth or depreciation of your performance capacity.

Individuals holding retrogressive beliefs fail to do their best as they are not

usually well informed. Some of the worst assumptions that harm individual

performance as well as hint on how to work your way out of the maze follow in

the succeeding paragraphs.

1. What are your perceptions of good

and evil in people, events, and days?

Getting messy with your wife as you get ready for work could make

you believe that the day may not augur well for you. What if, for so long,

someone embodied your role model and then at some point you realize you can no

longer believe anything about them? How do you take your everyday little

failures? Do you give up and think you can never be better just because you did

not seem to perform better on a particular day? Unfortunately, these beliefs

turn into self-fulfilling prophecies in the long run. Generally, there is so

much evidence out there that gives credence to what we believe about other

people and life circumstances every day.

If you are experiencing bad times and nothing seems to work out

for you, then it may be tough for you to get through the day. Your lousy

perception of the role model you no longer trust may hinder you from learning

something valuable from them. Human capability is related to beliefs we hold

about the performance of particular tasks. After all, we tend to think that

it’s not very worthy of losing time trying. However, the detrimental effects

beliefs have on your performance are not inherent and could be altered.

Identifying and combating them helps in managing your performance in a positive

sense. Prove your beliefs wrong by fighting them head-on.

Enjoy

this podcast on self-fulfilling prophecies

2. How do you perceive what you have

and what you don’t have?

Human perception of what they are capable of and what they are not capable of as a product of their genome deters the prospects of mastering and improving their performance. People always tend to think that some people are naturally born with particular talents that enable them to perform excellently. On the contrary, it could be true that you are not born with the ability, but with hard work and determination, the best performance is also achievable.