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James Cooper

@jamesthecooper

The "Fantasy Realisation Theory"

It is speculated that people confuse daydreams for reality. The warm emotions from the fantasies lead them to feel as if they'd already met their goals. It results in not putting in the hard work needed for success.

Positive thinking on its own could be counter-productive. Research shows that dieters who fantasized about weight loss are less likely to lose weight. Students who dream of academic success tend to get worse grades than those who don't.

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The strategy that turns daydreams into reality

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Self Improvement

How To Go From Dreaming To Doing: 4 Steps To Motivation - Barking Up The Wrong Tree

You have stuff you know you should be doing. But it doesn't get done. You need to go from dreaming to doing - but it's hard. You want to accomplish more at work, hit the gym, get a new job or study harder at school... but it's not happening.

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Go from Dreamer to Do-er

Use the WOOP strategy for achieving goals:

Wish: What do you dream of achieving in the future?
Outcome: What form will that result take?

Wish (But Don’t Stop There)

Everything starts with a wish. But don't transform that into fantasy.

When you fantasize, your brain thinks you’ve actually achieved your goal. So rather than ramping up, motivation dials back.

See A Specific Outcome

Be specific about the form your wish should take.

For example: If a "better work-life balance" is your wish, your outcome could be “No work on weekends."

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Alfie Easton

@aeaston

Moving Beyond Positive Thinking

Norman Vincent Peale made a career out of it, and we've heard for decades how important it is to be a positive thinker . Visualize and expect what it is you want and it shall be done. As if .

bigthink.com

Mental attainment

There is a correlation between positive thinking and ineffective performance, because expectations of a successful outcome demonstrably relaxes a person so much that they lack the energy to achi...

Mental contrasting

It involves attaching positive thinking to realistic goals.

This approach also connects positive thinking to a realistic assessment of one’s possibilities, an awareness of obstacles is inevitable, and that leads to a second aspect of successful mental contrasting.

Implementation intentions

It involves developing if-then strategies for things that may not go as well as hoped as you work to achieve your goals.

With these in place, you’re ready to “improvise” — in quotes because you’ve actually planned out your response in advance — as need be and keep moving forward.

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Mary-G

@maryg_swt

Fan of sci-fi? Psychologists have you in their sights

Psychologists have stigmatised science fiction fans as losers who retreat into fantasy worlds. This is unfair.

theconversation.com

Kirk Allen

.. was a pseudonymous patient of psychoanalyst Robert Lindner, in his 1954 case studies, in which the patient had a dual life, which he could switch by mental time-travel and travel in an instant t...

The Genre Of Science Fiction

..according to the famous science fiction author Ursula Le Guin has an essential gesture of distancing and pulling back from reality, seeing it from a different plane. It provides a fresh perspective for our righteous wars and our desires to conquer or be conquered.

The Fantasy stories of other worlds make our world seem like a foreign society whose culture and rules have many unwanted features that we can try to change.

The Iron Dream

.. published in 1972 was an alternate fantasy timeline of Adolf Hitler, in which he lives another kind of life as a science fiction author and illustrator(yes it is far fetched!)

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