Hello and welcome to the new mindset hootis podcast. My name is Case Kenney at case.kens.k on

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you become the person you're meant to be, leave your comfort zone and live a purposeful and

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Thank you. live a purposeful and fulfilling New Mindset Who Dis. As always, thank you so much for listening. Thank you for supporting me. And today I want to talk about something that will really help you. It'll help you in the context of visualization. And that's something that you probably do. You visualize. Either you have like a method to it and you're in your serious about it or maybe like so many

others, you just kind of visualize at night before you fall asleep or you have a moment during a day

and you're just visualizing about you're picturing a future moment, a future breakthrough,

joy, love, success, something that you're working toward, and you just, you just picture it

in your mind. It's a great practice, and there's so much great neuroscience behind it and studies on it.

And, you know, in all of my work, especially in the keynotes that I do called the language of

optimism, I share the power of visualization. But there's something here that's really interesting that I want to share.

And that research has found that people who visualize obstacles before visualizing success perform

worse than people who do it in the reverse order.

When you imagine obstacles first, your brain treats them as reasons to quit.

But when you imagine success, joy, love, whatever it is, first, your brain treats them as reasons to quit. But when you imagine success,

joy, love, whatever it is, first, you picture the specific future you want. Your brain activates

motivation and goal commitment. And so when you think about the inevitable obstacles, your brain

treats them as problems to solve rather than reasons to give up.

So the idea here is that you have to be wildly delusional first.

You have to see the future clearly first.

And then you need to be realistic about how to get there.

That's the correct order.

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