![]() Maybe you think you’re too busy, not talented enough, not experienced enough, or that there are fifty people better/more capable than you to pull off whatever it is you want to try to do. There are more clinical versions of it, but I like to stick with what I know: you lie to yourself about a situation so deeply and so often that it becomes real in your daily life. I’m a Sociologist by training, so this is the idea I have of SFP. Most of us know what a self-fulfilling prophecy is but a working definition goes something like this:Ī self-fulfilling prophecy is the sort of expectation of self that you believe in/invest in that manifests into reality because you operate off the assumption that the thing is real. This was rooted, of course, in fear, but that seems obvious. For the longest time, I made a worthless habit of talking myself out of opportunities before I learned about what they had to offer. ![]()
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