The Pygmalion Effect
The main idea about The Pygmalion Effect is that if you believe that someone is capable of achieving greatness, then that person will indeed achieve greatness. 71 .
72 . A professor makes a bet that he can teach a poor flower girl to speak and act like an upper-class lady, and is successful.
The Pygmalion Effect may occur all around us whether it is in the workforce, at schools or even at home. Through the Pygmalion Effect, supervisors can create better employees just by believing in them. This is even truer when working with underachievers. 73 .
If, for instance, you tell a new teacher at a grammar school―who has no previous experience with her new to be students―that a particular young student of hers is extremely bright and clever, the new teacher will automatically be more supportive, more encouraging, teach more challenging material, be patient and allow that student more time to answer questions, and provide extra feedback to that student. The student receiving all this attention and absorbing in the teacher’s belief learns more and is, as a result, better in school. 74 . The main concern is that this new teacher entirely believes that this student is bright and clever. 75 . The manager must purely believe that his or her workers are high achievers, and the results the manager will receive are nothing less.
A. All it takes is really believing.
B. Whether the child is bright or not before hand does not necessarily matter.
C. In other words, believing in potential simply creates potential.
D. The person believed in, being believed, becomes the person whom they are believed to be.
E. The effect is named after George Bernard Shaw’s play Pygmalion.
F. The Pygmalion Effect refers to situations in which students perform better than other students.
G. This is also the case for managers and workers.