Watson's Effect

This effect does not in any way represent me or my family. It is named Watson's Effect simply because I came up with it, not for any other reason.

You are a kid in fifth grade. (For some of you this may even be true or at least a metaphor for your life.) You are a decent kid with an average level of intelligence and average grades (all of them at least C+'s, let's say). Your parent, however, are not happy with your performance in school. They want you to work your grades upwards of an A- in every subject. You feel that your performance is okay, and a C or B here and there is not going to hurt you career.

But your parents won't listen. They pressure you into working incredibly hard and long on your work, and sacrificing many other things that make life worth living, such as reading for pleasure and cake. You work harder and harder. Your grades slowly creep upward...and then it hits. You fall into a delirium from lack of food and exercise. You slowly turn into a zombie from focusing upon your work so incredibly hard. Your words become incomprehensible. You earn the nickname "Guolaosi", which in Mandarin literally translates to "death by overwork." (that is a real word. Look it up.) This combination of your degenerative state and your personal atmosphere at school leads your grades to drop into D's and F's. You drop out of high school once you reach it and spend the rest of your life producing methane, which eats away at the ozone enough to allow solar wind through, and all electrical systems fail. The Aurora Borealis are seen all over Earth. And most importantly, everything on Earth is vaporized.

 This is an example of what I call "Watson's Effect", which states thus-

There is a point at which high expectations cross the line into "repercussive expectations", a point at which the expectation has harmful consequences. The caused effect, thus dubbed "Watson's Effect", can have many repercussions, hence the name "repercussive expectations." That Point, called the "repercussive boundary", can be measured as such that it is the Point at which expectations leave the necessary and enter the realm of emotions such as pride, vanity, and greed. This can lead, as stated, to uncomfortable, harmful, and possibly irrevocably horrible effects, dubbed as the "repercussive extremity".

Watson's Effect is a dangerous thing, I believe, and I think we can all strive not to expect things of our peers past the repercussive boundary. This could be tough. It will most definitely not be easy. I will be putting this somewhere on the blog where it is always visible at the top of the first page of posts.

I beg you to take this under consideration, for while the story may have had a humorous air, it is indeed a metaphor. Mark this, and mark it well-the expectations of the world at large are well beyond the repercussive boundary. But that does not mean they will stay there.