The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Your Thoughts Are Indicators of Where You’re Going
“Change your thoughts and you change your world.” ~ Norman Vincent Peale
Back when I was a kid, I heard Mom and Ma (my maternal grandmother) talk about saying good things about myself. Norman Vincent Peale’s book had been popular for about a decade and people were talking about the importance of positive thinking.
Just a few years before Peale’s book, The Power of Positive Thinking, was published in 1952, sociologist Robert Merton wrote an article (1948) coining the term “Self-fulfilling Prophecy.” … [Read More ...]