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[Music] We often say that you have to be positive. You have to have positive visualizations, and that's obviously true. You have to see what you want to have happen in the future.
But when you study rare people, it's weird because what they actually envision are challenges, obstacles, opponents, monsters they're going to defeat. They're seeing themselves being pitted against elite competition. And they do this when they're driving around. They put on music. They see it. They do it.
If you're an athlete, they do it when they're practicing. They can be on a basketball court or, you know, playing a round of golf by themselves, and they're pretending there are people in the gallery, and they're in impossible positions. And you've actually probably done this if you're a kid and you've ever shot a basketball in your driveway. Three to one, you're putting yourself in challenging positions. That's what visualization really is.
We say we have to be optimistic and positive, but really, rare people, what they do is they see challenging situations that they have to overcome, and they get a juice, an emotional juice out of that. So, part of visualization, maybe the main part of it, is not just seeing it, but the feelings you have when you're doing it. The feelings of triumph, the feelings of confidence you get from in your mind repetitively seeing yourself succeed, going up against the forces which are pitted against you.
That's how you start to develop inner strength. And you don't have to go out into the world and look for reps in the world. Meaning, you don't have to be in a ton of situations where you need to make a game-winner. You don't have to actually be in an environment such as giving a speech to get better at handling nerves as giving a speech. You can use your mind. You can recreate the environment. You know what you do is you put yourself in the middle of a struggle, a trauma, some sort of quagmire that you have to get out of. I mean, that's what rare people do. That's what successful people do.
So they're really optimistic, but ironically, it's kind of like there's a negative aspect to their visualization. The negative aspect are those things which are going to attack you and come after you. You have to see that. If you don't see that, you're you're just gonna create an idyllic sort of fantasy where everything goes perfectly. Rares successful people, they don't visualize utopia. They visualize the hero's journey. They visualize themselves in a struggle for success. And it's fun. That makes visualization more addictive. You become addicted to the fumes you get from visualization. And then you also get addicted to the results you see from the visualization because you get you become what you visualize. You become what you see.
So you step onto a stage to give a presentation, and you've done this in your mind, and you've got the reps, and you've seen an audience there in front. And in your mind's eye, you've seen the audience. You're not afraid of the audience anymore. I had a friend who was going to do a PhD defense. And, you know, you have to present your PhD thesis, and your professors attack and criticize and ask questions, and it can be really stressful. But he prepared himself by visualizing it and also rehearsing it. And when you're rehearsing again, you can visualize the professors there. You can visualize the man or woman you're going to pitch your business idea to and see them being harsh with you.
So there's something within a rare person that into it's that when you visualize, you want to fight monsters. You know, in every movie we see, every book we read, the climax is the good guy versus forces that are way, almost seemingly way beyond his power and control. But he learns how to handle them, and he becomes better at handling them as time goes by. So when you visualize, it's important to be positive, but make sure you create obstacles and challenges in these visualizations to give them energy, emotion, and true power.
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