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Now, what I'm doing is fulfilling your expectations of how I should live my life.
Sometimes, we even have these formalized cultural expectations.
So after we had Declan, we kind of recalibrated our expectations.
And if you have the right expectations and expectation management, we feel like it's going to be a pretty gratifying experience.
They've come thousands of miles on a perilous trip, risked life, health and property, spent months of the most arduous labor a man can perform and at length with expectations raised to the highest pitch have reached the coveted goal only to discover the fact that there is nothing here for them."
We walk across graduation stages, high on our overblown expectations, and when we float back down to earth, we realize we don't know what the heck it means to actually save the world anyway.
So when I was born, I guess you could say expectations were kind of high for me.
Once more, humility, limits, honesty, realistic expectations and we could have achieved something to be proud of.
It's not just taking a pill and performance or pain improving; it's about our beliefs and expectations, the cultural meaning of a treatment.
So we know that our beliefs and expectations can be manipulated, which is why we do trials where we control against a placebo, where one half of the people get the real treatment, and the other half get placebo.
And what ends up happening is that as participants we start to learn the level of detail that we need in order to manage expectations from both humans and machines.
Their expectations are different.
I was able to set reasonable expectations with my business partners about what I could do and the time frames that I could do it in.
My family's traditions and expectations for a woman wouldn't allow me to own a mobile phone until I was married.
Our expectations of what the oceans can produce is something that we don't really appreciate because we haven't seen it in our lifetimes.
And we keep setting our expectations higher and higher.
People arrive at experiences like these with expectations.
And when we make things, we're actively choosing what to do with those expectations.
I want to confound these expectations, because I think that every day, fundamental things and experiences frame reality in a way that we often take for granted.
Or small things can come out of left field and draw us into reassessing our complacent expectations about reality.
I also love that project because it brings attention to the fact that we approach media with all these expectations that we do not necessarily need.
Shame, for women, is this web of unobtainable, conflicting, competing expectations about who we're supposed to be.
For men, shame is not a bunch of competing, conflicting expectations.
It changes expectations of quality.
Some people say the secret to happiness is low expectations.
Number one: Whatever happens, whether you succeed or you fail, people with high expectations always feel better.
The psychologists Margaret Marshall and John Brown studied students with high and low expectations.
And they found that when people with high expectations succeed, they attribute that success to their own traits.
People with low expectations do the opposite.
And that is the third reason why lowering your expectations will not make you happy.
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