Every day of your life you've been told that you are not someone who should be in college. Although you graduate from high school and enroll in college, you then decide that you're not college material and drop out. What might be an explanation for your behaviour?

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The self-fulfilling prophecy is when a belief or expectation, whether correct or not, affects a person's behavior in such a way that it causes the belief to become true. In this case, being told repeatedly that you are not college material may lead you to internalize this belief and act in ways that make it come true, such as dropping out of college.

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