# Martha S Bache-Wiig > Life as a Gift and a Work of Art ## Posts - [Who are you wanting to become? Insights on Healing, Growth and Life as a Work of Art](https://marthabw.com/who-are-you-wanting-to-become/) - [Why The Odyssey Matters Now](https://marthabw.com/why-the-odyssey-matters-now/) - [Collective Unconscious or Morphic Fields? Two Ways of Understanding Human Connectedness](https://marthabw.com/collective-unconscious-or-morphic-fields/) - [Why We Repeat the Same Patterns Even When We Know Better](https://marthabw.com/why-we-repeat-the-same-patterns/) - [The Double Spiral in Psychological and Spiritual Healing and Resilience](https://marthabw.com/double-spiral-healing-and-resilience/) - [Existential Creativity and Mindfulness](https://marthabw.com/existential-creativity-and-mindfulness/) - [New Year, New Lens! Here's to 2026 🌟](https://marthabw.com/new-year-new-lens-heres-to-2026-%f0%9f%8c%9f/) - [Loving Others As Ourselves? What?!](https://marthabw.com/loving-others/) - [When Ideas Appear at the Same Time in Different Places](https://marthabw.com/exploring-the-depths-of-the-mind-a-comparison-of-jungs-collective-unconscious-and-sheldrakes-morphic-fields/) - [Celebrating Human Progress at the time of the Solstice](https://marthabw.com/happy-juneteenth-happy-solstice/) - [Don't let the Big Bad Baboons get you down - healing from emotional and psychological stress](https://marthabw.com/dont-let-the-big-bad-baboons-get-you-down/) - [Opportunities in the Time of the Coronavirus](https://marthabw.com/opportunities-in-the-time-of-the-coronavirus/) - [Your Authentic Self](https://marthabw.com/your-authentic-self/) - [Amo Ergo Sum](https://marthabw.com/amo-ergo-sum/) - [Pain as a Cosmic Force ..... to Create New Love, Beauty, Truth and Freedom!](https://marthabw.com/pain-as-a-cosmic-force/) - [Expectations: how they shape us, and how we can transform them](https://marthabw.com/expectations/): Good morning, friends. Today I want to share something I heard about a few weeks ago while in the car. I was listening to NPR’s This American LifeĀ and I heard a segment (click here to read the transcript of the show) about studies done on how expectations, how what we think of ourselves and others, can deeply affect and shape our lives. In a nutshell, a research psychologist named Robert Rosenthal Ā put labels on the cages of laboratory rats, to see what kind of effect they might have on the rats’ performance. 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