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You Are Heroic with Brian Johnson
Heroic Chat with Gabriele Oettingen: Practicing Mental Contrasting
Oct 13, 2023
01:07:05
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- Mental contrasting, which involves imagining the best outcome and then considering the obstacles and creating a plan to overcome them, is more effective than positive fantasies and daydreams about the future in implementing our dreams and wishes.
- Using Woop and mental contrasting can help us assess the feasibility of our wishes, identify obstacles, prioritize our efforts, and make more informed choices about where to invest our energy.
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The Power of Mental Contrasting and Woop
Gabriel Ootenjan, a world-class expert, shares the power of mental contrasting and Woop in this podcast episode. She explains that positive fantasies and daydreams about the future can be detrimental when it comes to implementing our dreams and wishes. Instead, mental contrasting, which involves imagining the best outcome and then considering the obstacles and creating a plan to overcome them, is more effective. By consciously going through this process, we can calibrate our energy and focus on the feasible wishes while letting go of non-feasible ones. She emphasizes the importance of radical acceptance in situations where desires cannot be changed, like with the ongoing pandemic. Woop serves as a powerful tool to help us balance our energy and make progress towards our achievable goals.
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