TIME TO GET READY MY TEAM DAILY READINGS
=== DO HARD THINGS ===
Day 1
BEYOND LIMITS
BEYOND LIMITS
How to Do Hard Things that Go beyond what is Expected or Required.
One of the limitations in our lives is expectations (ours or of people around us).
There were 2 classes that were tested.
One was in a public middle school in San Francisco and the other at a Bible College in Portland, Oregon. Both studies were set up the same way. Teachers were given two classes of randomly divided students. However, the teachers were told that one class were made up of the best and brightest students at the school and that the other class was made up of the slower to average students.
With that, the teachers began to teach. And guess what happened?
All of the teachers’ interaction with the students were tainted by their expectations.
All of the teachers’ interaction with the students were tainted by their expectations.
When the teachers worked with a student in the “bright” class, they persisted with the student until he or she found the answer. But when a student in the “slow” class didn’t find the answer right away, the teachers moved on to another student. When a student in the bright class struggled, the teachers brushed it off, saying that the student was just having an “off-day”. But when the students in the slow class struggled, it was just because they were slow.
Don’t miss this: statistically the classes were exactly the same.
The only difference was in what their teachers expected of them.
Soon, the students began to meet those expectations.
The “best and brightest” class began to excel, and “the slower to average” class began to lag behind.
THE POWER OF EXPECTATIONS
Expectations have consequences.
They are a self-fulfilling prophecy.
(When you think you can, you can.
Expectations have consequences.
They are a self-fulfilling prophecy.
(When you think you can, you can.
When you think you can’t, you’re right.)
When expectations are high, we tend to rise to meet them.
When expectations are low, we tend to drop to meet them.
When expectations are low, we tend to drop to meet them.
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