In the sixties, Psychologist Bob Rosenthal discovered what he dubbed the Pygmalion Effect. He made his discovery after an experiment with rats. He randomly divided a group of rats into two halves. Then, he told a group of students that one half was formed of special and brilliant rats while the other half included the dull ones. The students must take care of the rats while performing many tests. To Rosenthal's surprise, the rats the students believed to be brighter and faster performed better.
It was like magic.
"'If rats became brighter when expected to, then it should not be farfetched to think that children could become brighter when expected to by their teachers.", Rosenthal wrote about his experiment.
And indeed, a test on students proved that assumption.
Obviously, the opposite is also true. When we have negative expectations about someone, their performance gets worse. It's called the Golem Effect.
Our beliefs may be invisible, but they have a tangible impact on reality.
At every moment, we make each other smarter or dumber, stronger or weaker, faster or slower depending on our beliefs about each other.
We continuously communicate our expectations to others through verbal and non-verbal language and our actions. We constantly influence each other.
What would the world be if we learned to see the infinite potential of the divine in every human being?