Self-Fulfilling Prophecy - To Fail or To Succeed? A self-fulfilling prophecy is an expectation or belief that can influence your behaviors, thus causing the belief to come true. The idea behind a self-fulfilling prophecy, also known as the Pygmalion effect, is that your belief about what will happen drives the actions that make that outcome ultimately come to pass. Think a moment and imagine relating the above to your English development, what will it mean? If you expect everything to go wrong, you might put in less effort or fail to take steps that could turn things around, which means that expecting the worst brings out the worst. If you expect everything to go right you might be more eager, more enthusiastic and less worried! Listen to the recording several times and allow the information to sink in and to influence you in it's own way. Good luck and join my 1-1 trainings to become better and brighter at expressing yourself!