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Thursday, May 5, 2011
Simplest Failure of Expectations
Failing expectations can be a very complex situation. Then it can be a very simple misconception. One common misconception is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Sometimes there is not a pot of gold, but a port-a-jon, as in the picture at the bottom of the page. There, in reality, is not an end to a rainbow since they are circular in nature. Another simple version is when society creates something that ends up viewed as bad. This is seen with Superman and Kryptonite, Superman can not be around Kryptonite because it weakens him, hence he tries to avoid it. One would expect that the song Kryptonite by 3 Doors Down (link in sidebar) would be about avoiding the Kryptonite. One expectation that is wrong, the singer wants to be with his Kryptonite, his weakness, probably a girlfriend, wife, or even can be viewed as a daughter, someone he would not want to lose in his life. What are some simple expectations that are misconceptions or even society induced expectations you have seen?
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As you mentioned that there is not always a pot of gold at the end of a rainbow and that tends to be what people expected. That can also be said about people who voted for Obama. Some people expected Obama to be the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow because of what he said he was going to accomplish as president. These people who voted for Obama expected great actions from him and expected them to occur immediately. Since Obama was unable to accomplish what people expected him to accomplish, his rating started to decline.
ReplyDeleteWhat about when someone expects a friend to stand up for him/her even if he/she is wrong but they don't because it goes against the friend's morals? Does that work?
ReplyDeleteThat is true, Obama did fail many peoples' exectations that they had when they voted for them. i.e. getting troops out of Iraq.
ReplyDeleteThat is a touchy point, if I expected my friend to stand up for me when it goes against thier morals, I would have set up false expectations. I would not want to feel I was having them fight themselves. I would expect them to support me (i.e. give advice and some help), but i would leave it up to them to stand up for me.