Imagining failure triggers real stress hormones and fear responses in your body, even though nothing has actually happened. By shifting what you imagine toward neutral or positive outcomes instead, you can reduce the physiological fear response.
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So we all have to look forward, you know, into the future. And as humans, we can do that. And, you know, I love something that Einstein once said. He said, imagine is a preview of your, of what's to come. So if, what if you imagine failure? All right. If you imagine you're gonna hurt yourself or screw up on something, that imagination, that projection triggers hormones in your body, stress hormones. It triggers things in your body that then your body tells you that's real. Yeah. Because you feel it. So what if you think differently and you don't feel it? So you fear less, to your point, or perhaps not at all. But that's the key.