The Expectancy Factor (Project)

The Expectancy Factor - Overview

“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” George Santayana

“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein

The key word here is “expecting.”

This quote from George Santayana also applies to philosophy, religious texts, and classic literature. We find this around us nowadays, where people have refused to learn the wisdom recorded in our legacy texts, there is recurring failure and disaster around them. Because they make the same stupid errors. They should have known better. Businesses, even whole cities, and states are finding themselves facing financial ruin because they've rejected time-proved principles, patterns, and systems that keep organizations solvent and expanding.

As a creator-entrepreneur – any actually, anyone – reverse engineering idea this is core to success.

I've recently done a deep dive back into the core of several popular success books. These then led to reviewing others that said the same basic ideas. And I've long held that all these various books, popular in their own day, were really just singing the same tune – using different arrangements, with different lyrics, in different keys.

At the end of this concentrated review, a central theme came clear:

“As we expect, so we receive.”

And this theme is so common, in all its many versions, it's repeated more often than the Golden Rule. Everyone uses this rule daily in their lives. Everyone. Because we predict results and observe the response. Just the way we are wired.

You see this in both optimistic and pessimistic versions:

Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed... Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders. Henry David Thoreau

You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win. Zig Ziglar

James Allen wrote a popular book along this line, quoting from Proverbs: “As a man thinketh, so is he.”

Claude M. Bristol wrote his “Magic of Believing” to summarize and expand on the anedotes he'd found during his own research along this line.

Dorothea Brande, in her “Wake Up and Live!” narrowed it down to a single phrase, “Act as if it is impossible to fail.”

Napoleon Hill said this in several versions, “As a person conceives and believes, so they can achieve.”

Marcus Aurelius, the great Roman Emperor, said: "A man's life is what his thoughts make of it."

Ralph Waldo Emerson said this: "A man is what he thinks about, all day long."

William James said: "If you only care enough for a result, you will almost certainly attain it. If you wish to be rich, you will be rich. If you wish to be learned, you will be learned. If you wish to be good, you will be good – only you must, then, really wish these things, and wish them exclusively, and not wish at the same time a hundred other incompatible things just as strongly."

In the Bible, you read in Mark 9:23, "If thou cans't believe, all things are possible to him that believeth."

Dr. Norman Vincent Peale put it this way: "That is the simple fact, which is the basis of an astonishing law of prosperity and success. In three words: Believe and Succeed."

William Shakespeare put it this way, "Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win by fearing to attempt."

George Bernard Shaw said: "People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."

Together, the Golden Rule and this Expectancy Rule explain so much about how some people can become remarkably successful, while they also explain how the bulk of humanity is content to live humdrum lives.

It's all what they expect.

Restated: Your own expectancies predict what you are going to get back from the life you experience.

Again, the difference from living an average life and one of exceptional success is what you expect. Or the lack of specificity that you've set in every instance where you expect any result.

Wider than this – the world around you evolves into a greater, more prosperous state (or continues its dreary routine) depending on how you expect things around you to “turn out.” What you have gotten out of your life up to this point and will get from here forward is only dependent on how high and specific you set your expectations – or not.

The word “expect” is different, but inclusive of all the materials on “goal achievement”.

What most people don't understand is that they are already specifying expected results in every moment they live. They either accept or become dissatisfied with the outcomes they observe and experience. It's just that simple. If they just “go along”, then they are satisfied with their lot in life – but if they are not content with the way things “turned out”, then they can take control of their present and build a new and more prosperous future.

It's this dissatisfaction that becomes the “burr beneath their saddle”, one which goads a person to be or achieve better. It will inspire a person to improve their actions to get better results. If they are dissatisfied with their conversations with authorities and even friends or associates – they will then become less inclined to listen to these people, or invite them to meetings, or vote for these people ever again.

People who live with their “low expectations” don't realize that their world can be more vibrant, thrilling, exciting to any degree they want – just by learning to expect better things show up around them.

And whether it's a new pair of shoes, or a mansion - showing up is exactly what happens.

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