The Expectation Effect How Your Mindset Can Change Your World

You need to have the expectation effect by David Robson.

There's a great book called the expectation effect by David Robson, just popular science book. It's about four years old now.

He looked at a study where they did exactly this. They gave a cohort of people, two different groups. One group has a particular genetic predisposition that allows them to blow off CO2 more efficiently. And that means that for VO2 max work, they have, uh, they're much more effective. Other group does not have this mutation. They mixed them up and split them into two parts. So each group had equal proportions of people with and without, you can see where I'm going to go.

And there's a guy, David Robson who wrote a book called The Expectation Effect. And in that book, they got a group of people, I can't remember how big the study was, but they lied to them and said, this group have got a gene that is going to hinder their turnover of oxygen. And this group over here doesn't. And they got them to perform fitness tests. And the people that were told they had this gene mutation performed a lot better.

In fact, this notion of changing expectations was so transformative for David that he decided to write all about it. His new book is called The Expectation Effect, How Your Mindset Can Change Your World.

If you do want to learn more about this, you should check out David's new book. It's called The Expectation Effect, How Your Mindset Can Change Your World, and it comes out February 15th.