Mel Robbins shares a reverse-thinking exercise: write ten ways to make your problem worse, then flip each one to its opposite. This forces your mind to surface solutions it wouldn't normally find, breaking through feeling stuck.
So let's say that you are stuck in a situation that is really, really difficult, whether it's a job or a family matter, whatever it is. Write down 10 ways that you could make it worse. You could make it worse? Write down 10 ways that you could make the situation worse. And the exercise is, after you write down the 10 ways, flip it. What are the things that you— what's the opposite? of the thing you wrote that would make it worse? And it is fascinating because you come up with answers that you wouldn't come up with by just saying, what should I do? You force yourself to be like, okay, let me make this as bad as it could possibly be. I could spend all my money gambling. Well, that would make this a lot worse. And then you write the polar opposite. And when you look at that list of opposites, you have a roadmap. Wow. Yeah, that's a form of imagination. Yeah.
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