Self Fulfilling Prophecy Research Paper

Self-fulfilling prophecy is defined in the textbook as “when a person’s expectations of an event, and his or her subsequent behavior is based on those expectations, make an outcome more likely to occur than would otherwise been true” (Watzlawick, 2005). A recent event that I happened to impose this is when I took my car to get it checked it, the mechanic told me that a part that controls the steering wheel was badly damaged and that if I kept driving the car in that condition, my steering wheel won’t work and it could cause a major accident. Well I thought to myself “I won’t have any problems, I’ll get it fixed sooner or later”, and while I was driving in the morning for school, I started to think about what the mechanic told me, and I suddenly became nervous and worried, then out of nowhere the steering wheel stopped working but luckily, I managed to stop my car on the
Other times it felt as if I dodged a bullet because my day wouldn’t go out the way I thought it would, since I’m very pessimistic. It all depends on how my behavior a certain day is, or how I wake up feeling on the start of a new day. If I wake up feeling sick or upset, then my behavior will be based on those expectations and it would probably turn at bad without me even knowing my prediction became true. I just try to live each day carefully without trying to judge how it’ll be.

The more I answer these questions It definitely changes the way I’ll talk to myself in the future. It gives me a different view on how I thought things back in the past, but now I know that I need to be more optimistic and approach situations carefully than just immediately thinking it’ll end the way I think. After reading about what Self- fulling prophecy is, I will slowly start to change on how i'll speak to myself from now on. Won't be easy, but its never to late to change some things in my