Incredible breakdown of how self-fulfilling prophecies actually work in real time. The way the woman literally re-enacted the same conflict two days in a row is fasinating proof that we're often more invested in validating our worldview than in actually solving the problem. I've seen this play out similarly when someone on my team kept insisting they were being ignored in meetings, but they'd arrive late and immediately chekc their phone. Belief really does become behavior becomes proof.
Exactly this. And it applies on many levels (personal, social, national, global). We are handicapped in our ability to solve issues because of over-investment in an existing worldview — often one that blames others rather than looking at how we are complicit in creating the situation.
Incredible breakdown of how self-fulfilling prophecies actually work in real time. The way the woman literally re-enacted the same conflict two days in a row is fasinating proof that we're often more invested in validating our worldview than in actually solving the problem. I've seen this play out similarly when someone on my team kept insisting they were being ignored in meetings, but they'd arrive late and immediately chekc their phone. Belief really does become behavior becomes proof.
Exactly this. And it applies on many levels (personal, social, national, global). We are handicapped in our ability to solve issues because of over-investment in an existing worldview — often one that blames others rather than looking at how we are complicit in creating the situation.