 Do you know somebody who's filled with self-doubt? Well, in this video, we're going to talk about the Pygmalion effect, which can definitely help. So stay tuned. What's up everybody? This is Chris from the Rewired Soul, where we talk about the problem, but focus on the solution. This is a study that I want to share with you all because it's fascinating and it'll show you the actual power you have to be there for other people and actually give them a lot of strength and courage and hope to succeed and be better. So this is an experiment that was done by Dr. Robert Rosenthal and it was an experiment conducted to test what they call the Pygmalion effect. What Robert Rosenthal and his team of psychologists did, they went into a school and they went to a bunch of different classrooms of elementary school kids and they did this at the beginning of the year. They gave all of these kids IQ tests, had them test on their intelligence. At the end of the test, they got the results and they went up to the teachers in each of these individual classrooms and they told the teachers, the three top students. They said, okay, Sam, Sarah and Sally, they tested off the charts. These kids are just excelling their geniuses, right? And they said, now, for the rest of the year, you are not allowed to tell the students how they did on this test and you cannot spend any more or less time with them. Basically, they told these teachers that they had to act completely normal and they also told these teachers that they would be getting checked upon throughout the year to make sure that they weren't telling these kids how they scored on the test. At the end of the year, they gave these kids the same exact test and as predicted Sam, Sally and Sarah, the three kids that they told them did testing off the charts, these kids still tested at the highest of the class, but there was one little lie in play. When the psychologists originally got the test results back, they picked the three names at random, completely at random. These weren't kids who did extra well, they aren't kids who did terrible. These were actually kids who did 1000% absolutely normal on the test. So sit back and ask yourself, why did they excel so much? Why did they do so well taking the exact same test at the end of the year? Well the answer to that is purely through nonverbal communication. The teachers assumed that these kids were bright and they were going to excel, they were going to succeed and just through the nonverbal communication, these kids started to have a belief in themselves and they started doing a lot better too. This is a study that's been duplicated many many many times. I'll actually put a link to it down in the description below. But I wanted to make this video to just let you know how much power you have in this world to help out other people, to have faith in them. Some of you watching this, you might be a parent. This is a good tip for parenting your child, believing in them and what they can do and think about how much they can excel with that. Some of you might have a friend who is worried about, you know, where they're headed in life or if they're going to get that promotion or whether they're going to be single for the rest of their life. Think about what you can do for them to instill more confidence because if you're believing in somebody, they start believing in themselves. So here is my question of the day for all of you out here. Who are you going to believe in today? All right? But anyways, if you liked this video, give it a thumbs up. And if you are new here, I'm always making videos to help you out with your mental and emotional well-being. And make sure you click that little round subscribe button and also click or tap to the left right there. I have a bunch of other videos on this channel that you need to check out. Thanks so much for watching. I'll see you next time.