Pygmalion Effect

My fellow Masterminds, 

2021 showed me really how much time I gave away. 

Although I did make progress, I wanted to capitalize on things I started last year & re-enforce them because after all--they did help me, but I found myself falling back into old habits that weren't congruent with the goals & actions I had put in motion. 

Many individuals lost jobs last year- even this new one & those that were fortunate to keep theirs may have found themselves looking for other ways to get security in financial, mental & educational means.

I took a look at the resources I have at my employer & found there's so much that are beneficial as a staff that could influence my performance in a positive way, as well as benefit me as an individual. 

I took a course on presentation skills that also came with resource cards & a binder that I was able to take notes with. I had never heard of Stephen Covey, but I was so impressed by the course I decided to search to see which other items my employer had available for me to learn from through their platform. 

I found a 'Cliff Notes' version of his "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People" & immediately found myself in gratitude because I recently took inventory of the monthly goals I made in 2021 & found I had maybe a 30% completion rate of everything I set in place for myself. I dug deeper because I understood & intuitively felt that despite my introspection, I still had hang ups on different levels I couldn't seem to shake. It seemed like events would come to me that would show me myself & I would question them (not everything that is thought of is true); and I understand that I have problems with psychological rumination (I'll discuss it in another blog)--so certain things come back as a result of my own inadvertent action of speaking/thinking what I felt & believed into physical form through various relationships, actions & habits. This case I've counted more working against me than for me.

The first part of Covey's course talked about paradigms. A paradigm is another way of saying personal or internalized beliefs. People adopt paradigms they don't set for themselves but people also create them based on past experiences. Paradigms are reinforced by how we see the outside world. Living 'Through The Looking Glass' has been detrimental to me mainly because my illogical actions & thoughts were formed by outdated experiences. These outdated experiences reinforced my beliefs & those beliefs created a paradigm that are surely not in line with my future. How could I expect to conquer all these goals when I was my own enemy?

The way this happens is by a phenomenon called the Pygmalion Effect. It is truly a perpetual cycle but it isn't always negative. I think of it as a positive feedback loop without the biology connotation. One thing feeds from the previous. 

Here's a pic I found online--source mentioned is philonotes.com

So for individuals that don't have a psychological rumination challenge like I do, it would be easier to revert this cycle but for me, it has been a challenge that I'm slowly chipping away. 

'The one that moves mountains begins by carrying small stones'. 

Try to plug in anything you've noticed in your life with the circles & text displayed in the picture. Do you see any truth to this theory? 

I know I have...so I'm taking it one day at a time to break these chains of mental slavery. Each time I think I've broken them, I find more links & it is satisfying but definitely a process that cannot be rushed. 

If you've reached this far down, I would so appreciate if you took the time to access the link below. The digital age we're in doesn't come without consequence. Humans are electrophysiological beings. Why do you think we can be shocked back to life ;) 

5G is Live so Neutralize

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