How to Be a Complete and Utter Failure in Life, Work & Everything: 44 1/2 Steps to Lasting Underachievement

Chapter Twenty-nine. Don’t go to the movies

Quote to avoid

	“Formulate and indelibly stamp on your mind a mental picture of yourself as succeeding. Hold this picture tenaciously. Never permit it to fade—and your mind will seek to develop the picture.”
	--Norman Vincent Peale

Here is a bizarre and little-known fact. Your brain and body can’t tell the difference between something you vividly imagine and reality. Truly. Almost all world-class athletes are visualizers. As are other peak performers in just about any other field you care to mention. All these people see it, feel it, and experience it before they actually do it. As a formula, this would be: I × V = R (Imagination × Vividness = Reality). The secret is the symbol in the middle: repetition. ...