On top of Sheep Mountain or Sleeping Indian
Is it possible to control people and animals with your thoughts? Telepathy is a movie fiction, something that only Jedi knights have. Yet a radio program I listened to yesterday changed my thoughts on this. What they talked about showed that by having positive or negative expectations of people, you inadvertently control how they react to you and their world. They demonstrated that if you thought a lab rat was smart, it acted smart. The opposite was also true. How the rat was treated made all the difference.
If you assume that someone is incapable, bad, or unintelligent and you unconsciously treat them as such, you can actually force them into becoming what you visualize. But if you treat people as intelligent, active, and capable, often they’ll live up to how you think about them. Expectations are powerful. So much so that a positive expectation enabled Daniel Kish, a blind boy, to ride a bicycle and climb trees without assistance. Expect the best of yourself and others and you will be pleasantly surprised.
“Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.” — Brian Tracy
The link to the radio broadcast is below:
https://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/544/batman
Listen to the audio edition here
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