Did you know that a 60% of licensed people in Europe they are women, but they represent just over 13% of management positions, according to data from the Ministry of Health, Social Services and Equality? Without a doubt, breaking the glass ceiling for women is a common challenge that unfortunately we continue to face in Spain. A series of factors associated with the gender rolesto the lack of influential policies within some companies, but also to the self sabotage. It is precisely with the latter that the Galatea effect It could be your great ally.

And the Galatea effect has to do with a set of behaviors that occur in certain people and that can help you gain the trust you need in yourself to achieve and achieve everything you set out to do.

What is the Galatea effect?

The Galatea effect in psychology refers to the trustworthy personal attitude in oneself and the positive expectations that the person can project on himself with respect to the achievement of the proposed vital goals. A type of thinking that leads the person to carry out all those behaviors that will help them meet and achieve those proposed objectives in reality.

Typically people with high self-esteem and strong self-confidence may be more prone to the positive Galatea effect since their attitude helps them maintain a positive image of themselves.

The same thing happens with people who are used to receiving praise and positive expectations of others. Normally these can develop a greater sense of self-confidence and success, which in turn will lead to better performance and results.

Advantages of the Galatea effect

Among the many advantages that can be associated with the positive Galatea effect we find:

• It means progress and achievement of the desired personal, work, family and social life.
• Provides personal psychological well-being.
• Development of personal abilities and skills.
• It helps to implement actions to achieve the proposed objectives.
• It helps to successfully achieve the desired objectives for personal and common benefit of the environment.

Steps to follow to start the Galatea effect

Although obviously the Galatea effect can play in favor or oppossing of us (if we use it in a negative way), the ideal is that we use it to take advantage of it to our advantage. This is something that is often emphasized in self-help processes, since the importance of focus is key to achieving our goals.

To activate the Galatea effect, three axes are differentiated: the possibility, the capacity and the merit. The possibility has to do with the realism of the purposes we have; capacity with the potentialization of skills and merit with constructive disposition.

So first of all, we will have to make sure that our plan falls within the possible ones, then we will have to identify and exalt all the skills we may have to achieve it and finally trust yourself to carry it out, something closely related to self-perception and that will undoubtedly have to be far from self-sabotage.

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