This is very good strategy. Like the infamous “fake it till you make it”. But actually vocalizing it makes it even more powerful.
If anyone remembers the movie Closer from 2004, there’s a scene where Clive Owen’s character refuses a cigarette while almost failing at it. He settles it with a phrase: “I’ve given up.”. You can see he is not completely sure about that, but now that he said it out loud, he made it true.
This is very good strategy. Like the infamous “fake it till you make it”. But actually vocalizing it makes it even more powerful.
If anyone remembers the movie Closer from 2004, there’s a scene where Clive Owen’s character refuses a cigarette while almost failing at it. He settles it with a phrase: “I’ve given up.”. You can see he is not completely sure about that, but now that he said it out loud, he made it true.
Our lizard brain can be beat by our monkey brain, we just gotta use our monkey brain bits.