Self-improvement: the expectations are in fact a personal matter of personal choice

During a conversation with a customer, I learned that his son should Freshman First, sign up for only 12 hours instead of the standard 15th The position that the university 12 hours, was the expected workload of 12 hours was very difficult, even for the brightest young people. As his father was a former student who has experienced 15 to 18 hours per semester, he asked what I thought? My answer is the following question to the University: "If you are my child, Mister babache a 4-year degree in 4 years or 120 hours, as you can to achieve this goal while maintaining only a record for 24 hours per year expected #?
# On the way back to my office, I remembered the self-fulfilling prophecy, identified that Robert Merton in the structure of 1957 social work and social theory. Merton defined causes the term as an incorrect definition of the situation that a new behavior that makes the original design of the false reality. "Simply put, if the expectation is established, regardless of whether or not real real, we act as human beings in accordance with this expectation.
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