A Little Help From My Friends
Chasing Life
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The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
If you walk in with open heart, assume people like you, let them prove otherwise as opposed to vice versa I think it makes a huge difference Totally Yeah, absolutely. We see in the research that people that tend to think they'll be rejected They reject people, they are colder, they are more withdrawn, and then they get rejected back And it becomes the self-fulfilling prophecy - not just because everybody's mean and cruel, but because I have this lens on the world It's altering how I behaveAnd I'm actually rejecting people Whereas, you know, Research also finds, this is called the acceptance prophecy, that when people assume that they will be accepted They're told to make
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