The Concept of Self Fulfilling Prophecy

Over the course of life, everyone has their fair share of difficulties or challenges. Like in The Bread Givers, everyone in the world needs to work for things they want as those things are not always handed to them. There are many obstacles people have to go through to reach the point of success and happiness. Even though everyone expects things to just fall into their personal lives and just be given to them without a problem, that is not how the real world works unless you work extremely hard on it. Even with the Self Fulfilling Prophecy, the law of attraction, and Maslow’s Hierarchy, not everyone can not get everything they may need or want but with the right amount of work and effort, they can all the things they really want or need by controlling our usage of these three things.

The Self Fulfilling prophecy is all about who a person is and how much they want other people to believe in themselves. The whole prophecy basically explains how much we believe in ourselves, others will believe in us the same or different ways and the way they believe in us decides our future. Some people may decide that they do not need other people's beliefs to do the things they want in life.

They may think if the family, friends or associates that support them are happy with their progress, it may just make them feel proud. But some, may feel the need to cut the negativity out of their lives to feel the need to succeed. Others may feel like if there is a Kaleta 1 negativity balance in their lives, they may keep the negativity in their lives and use it as either motivation or false hope. In personal experience, when someone doesn't believe in me or gives me negativity, I tend to cut them off and prove them wrong.

Although, there is another part of this prophecy that people may not think of or quite understand. A concept that can help us get the things we want, is the law of attraction or most commonly known as, The Secret. The law of attraction has to do with hopeful or positive thinking about one or more items that a person wishes to encounter and claim as their own and with enough thinking and good connections, they receive the item they had been wishing for. One downside to this is if they’re thinking about a bad situation too much it is bound to find its way into your schedule or keep repeating itself into your life.

A professor on the SSU campus, Razzan Zahra, had taught this in her class as a whole lesson plan and at first her students had thought this was not a real or valid practice. Some however, decided to try it and had great outcomes. One wished for more money, he received money from a scholarship contest online. One was hoping for more social interaction, she got a lot more than she bargained for. However, one of the students had a midterm arrive on their plate and thought what would happen to their grade if they failed, although they studied, they did not reach the score they had originally hoped for.

After studying The Secret, some may say it is a miracle worker. This concept and the self fulfilling prophecy, go hand in hand. A person can be seeking someone's approval in their journey, be so desperate for the belief and overthink it in a positive way and receive the approval and luck from the other person. Some may say that this concept doesn’t work, but from self observation and observations held on other people, this topic, can help anyone receive the things they desire. Yet, can we assume there is more to this?

Some may say we need to focus on Kaleta 2 building ourselves up and the communities around us to fulfill these ideas with Maslow’s Hierarchy. Maslow’s Hierarchy is up for interpretation. Is it for yourself, the population, or a community? For some, it will be a personal hierarchy to your personal love and health, but are all these qualities what you need to love yourself and make yourself happy? Some may think no, people do not need all five characteristics to feel self worth or self love. Although, to receive things you may need or want with the previous practices, they may need some of these items to get the extra help or boost.

However, the person practicing these things may need to reach self actualization first. Knowing what they have, knowing what they want, and prioritizing what they need. Of course, you can hope for things on this hierarchy but it may be easier if these people have reached the proper physiological, safety, belonging, esteem and self actualization already to windle down what is really important to the person themselves. Overall, there are many ways to get what you want but it is just the practices you use to get to the end goal.

In today’s society, people want so many things and work so hard to achieve these goals, but not in the correct and healthy ways. Through University 102, we discuss actualization and how to reach short and long term goals while being safe and happy within ourselves; we are just entering the real world and we are not having things handed to us anymore like we did when we were children.

Now, we have to prove that we want it, we have to work harder than ever to achieve these goals, though we may or may not use the best practices, we can always think about the self fulfilling prophecy, the secret/law of attraction and Maslow’s hierarchy to be awarded our needs. While we are all still trying to figure out our needs and Kaleta 3 wants, we know what we need and want in this very minute, and while that can be money or education or love, it always starts with ourselves.