Stop Visualizing Success If You Want To Succeed: inside the new science of motivation.

Pure positive thinking sounds harmless, but what if it’s the reason you keep failing on the goals you care about most? I’m Angela Shurina, and I’m unpacking a counterintuitive finding from motivation research: when we only fantasize about future success, our bodies can relax as if the win already happened, which makes needed effort less likely. We dig into Gabrielle Oettingen’s work on the science of motivation and the practical technique called mental contrasting. You’ll learn how to visua...