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Each week I’ll send you an actionable tip to help you become a better communicator.

TIP OF THE WEEK

[Visualisation 101]

The brain is like playdough, constantly reshaping.

Parts of it can’t tell the difference between fully immersive closed-eye visualisation and the real thing.

There have many studies into the power of visualisation on high performance, particularly in sport.

One that often gets cited is from the 1960s at the University of Chicago.

Athletes were split into three groups and tested on how many basketball free throws they could make.

Afterwards, the first group practiced free throws every day for an hour.

The second group just visualised themselves making free throws.

The third group did nothing.

After thirty days, they were tested again. The first group improved by 24%.

The second group improved by 23% without touching a basketball!

The third group, as expected, did not improve.

Just as you go to the gym to tone up or lose weight, your ability to have absolute certainty in your vision for success and be in the best possible state is no different to growing muscle.

You need to repeat the exercise often, because repetition is the mother of all skill.

It’s the same with any state you want to experience.

You have to practice it.

By visualising your success and developing a strong self-belief and certainty, your own potential increases, which in turn means you’re more likely to take focused, determined and impactful action.

Once you take that action, guess what results you’re going to get?

More often than not, you’re going to get the results you’re looking for or even better.

And the cycle continues.

When you get these results, what do you think that’s going to do for your self-belief and certainty?

It’s going to increase, and you’re going to tell yourself, ‘See, I knew I could do it. I knew it would work.’

Conversely, the opposite is true. If you lack the self-belief, certainty and confidence, and you can’t visualise success ahead of time, you also lack belief in your own potential, take minimal action and, therefore, get poor results.

Then what happens?

You end up telling yourself, ‘See, I knew I couldn’t do it. I knew it wouldn’t work.’

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2 QUOTES THAT STOOD OUT TO ME THIS WEEK

“Whenever you're in conflict with someone, there is one factor that can make the difference between damaging your relationship and deepening it. That factor is attitude."
- William James

“Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving."

- John Dewey