If a person is treated like a patient, they are apt to act like one.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- People tend to fulfill expectations set by their treatment.
- In plain terms
- If you treat someone like a patient they will act like one.
- What can you take from it?
- Others respond to the roles you assign them.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- How do your expectations shape others?
- What role do you assign others?
Another view
Some people resist expected roles.
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