prophecyAt different times in your life you may have found yourself asking “what causes things to play out as they do in my life.”  While I do believe there are random events that determine how things play out much of it is determined by Self-fulfilling Prophecy. Self-fulfilling prophecy is engaging in behaviors that obtain results that confirm existing attitudes. A self-fulfilling prophecy is a prediction that causes itself to become true. For example, I believe that I am going to do poorly in school, so I decrease the effort I put into my assignments and studying, and I end up doing poorly, just as I thought. Another common example is relationships; I think my relationship with my significant other is going to fail, so I start acting differently, pulling away emotionally. Because of my actions, I actually cause the relationship to fail. Read the rest of this entry »

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