Ideas for success

Tag: Robert Rosenthal

  • Everybody has to persuade people sometimes

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    Brad Stanton
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    We all want to persuade people (our kids, boss, employees, spouse) to do certain things. The Pygmalion effect (also called the Rosenthal effect) is a phenomenon that has been proven to work very well by scientists, including Dr. Robert Rosenthal of Harvard University and UC Riverside. It has been shown that when you have high expectations…

  • Your words are powerful!

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    Brad Stanton
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    I saw a study that said children are born with a good self-image, but due to all the scolding’s and criticisms they get throughout life, their self-image becomes poorer as the years go by. School can be very rough on many children’s self-image because it is almost impossible to do any task 100% correctly and…