Welcome to today's episode of The Mindset Mentor Podcast. I'm your host Rob Dial.

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episode. Today I'm going to talk about the absolute worst that could happen in your life. And this is something that you may have

never really thought of before. I've talked about this before in the past, but really diving

into and thinking about the worst that could happen.

And this isn't like visualization.

This is actually what I would like to call reverse visualization.

You know, I've done many episodes about the importance of visualization.

Inside of my book, Level Up, there's an entire half of a chapter

that is about how to visualize and how to get better at it.

And study after study after study shows how visualization can help you create the life that you want.

There's studies that show that if you visualize actually working out and you visualize your muscles contracting that it can actually

increase strength not by doing anything but by visualizing it so your

muscles can get stronger by visualizing your muscles contracting getting stronger.

There's other studies that have showed how visualization can impact

your emotional regulation, help you get better at coping.

And that's not what we're gonna be talking about today. We're gonna be talking about the exact opposite so instead of visualizing what you want

We're going to talk about visualizing what you don't want like the absolute worst they could happen

I'm going to take you through something

that's called negative visualization, which is also called defense pessimism. And it originally

comes from the stoic philosophy. The idea is to basically visualize the thing that you are most afraid of

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