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How to focus on the present moment
How to cultivate empathy and understanding towards others
How to set personal and professional goals
If you have more energy, the world looks easier; the distance to the finish line doesn’t look as far.
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Goals most people struggle with are usually related to health, exercise, diet. Runners who use a narrowed scope of vision/attention in races have better outcomes than those who don’t.
Strategies to focus visual field:
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Visual experiences change in relation to different states of our body - people who experience chronic fatigue, elderly, and overweight perceive distances as farther, hills steeper.
Study findings: people when given a sugary energy drink, perceived their spa...
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How you visualise a goal or problem in your mind dictates how well you lean into that goal: whether you will be able to meet the goal, how you feel after & your capacity to tackle larger goals.
Do you have trouble finishing your run? Focus on intermediate targets al...
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Tying vision to the process of learning a language helps enhance outcomes.
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Creating a visual manifestation (e.g., vision board, lists) of your goal is effective for identifying what you want, but not necessarily effective in actually meeting the goal.
To put vizualization into action:
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For a lot of people, it’s not about getting from start to finish, it’s about getting to start.
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Vision takes up more real estate & visual processing in the brain as compared to any of the other senses. We prioritise what we see because we believe what we see.
Narrowing our visual aperture changes the way we perceive time:
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Proximity to a goal increases the investment and resources that people use to meet that goal.
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In this episode of Huberman Lab, Andrew Huberman & Dr. Emily Balcetis explain how to best visualise and overcome challenges in pursuit of larger, complex goals. They also discuss the science of defining goals, setting milestones, overcoming obstacles, and tracking progress.
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