Self-fulfilling Prophecy
Categories: Financial Theory
When a person believes something is going to happen with such an intensity that he/she ends up making it happen…and usually that person doesn’t even realize it. To top it off, that same person will say “See, I’m right!”
This creepy event happens at the woo-woo, subconscious level. Susan is convinced that her boyfriend is going to break up with her. She’s absolutely sure of it. As a result, she becomes cold and disconnected. She snaps at him constantly. She doesn’t want to go anywhere with him. She makes comments about him moving out. She even decides to rearrange the furniture in their apartment without telling him…and it ends up being done in a way he hates.
He says something to her about it and she responds angrily that he should just move out…so he does. “I knew he was going to leave” she says to herself, not having the sense that he hadn’t planned on it until she pushed him away with such intensity that she gave him no choice.
Susan never intended to push him away, but she was already acting as if it was a done deal and he was leaving, so her subconscious directed her to make it a reality.
