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You 2.0: The Mind's Eye

Hidden Brain

CHAPTER

Creating a Visual Image for Yourself

The techniques that Emily used to help her students imagine retirement, and that Michael Phelps used to visualize the length of the pool in front of him, involves something that Emily calls materializing. The idea is to take something that is abstract, amorphous, and hidden, and make it tangible, immediate, and mentally visible. We almost always make good on the things that we put into our calendar.

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