Jake Burhans argues that worry is negative visualization powered by your imagination. Instead of imagining what goes wrong, deliberately visualize success in specific situations like sales calls or interviews to harness that same mental power for better outcomes.
Worry is proof that your imagination and emotion are powerful, right? Worry is, is, is just negative visualization. That's all it is. And worry is one of the most relatable forms of kind of a negative manifestation, basically. So you're thinking negative thoughts about a potential future outcome that you don't want to happen, and you're getting emotionally involved in it by worrying and being anxious. And a lot of times that stuff will happen because you literally thought about it and got emotional. So Worry is proof that your imagination and emotion are powerful, right? Why don't we use the same process for visualizing positive? Instead of worrying about whatever is going to happen, why don't I just think about everything that could go right and just fantasize and visualize it going right? Visualize everything going right. That's a super powerful technique. Why are we not— why are we not visualizing our sales calls and visualizing a successful interview and visualizing having this difficult conversation with a spouse or a friend and visualizing it going well and how it's going to go well and all this stuff? Like, why don't those—
