Have you tried negative visualization? #shorts

My favorite takeaway from this book sounds a little funny. It's the positive power of negative visualization. What I mean by that is, if you think about a situation, your objective, and you identify the worst possible outcome for that situation, you really think about it, what you then can do is prepare yourself against those negative outcomes, and that's going to leave you in a better position. Book Thinkers family, this book right here, Get Out of My Head by author Andrew McConnell, applies ancient Stoic wisdom to modern-day situations. I love Stoic philosophy. It's totally changed my life. And here's an example. Andrew teaches a framework for negative visualization called OWN, O-W-N. It stands for objective, wrong, and now. So when you think about your objective for a situation, you wanna list what's your ideal outcome, and then what could go wrong? List it all out. Here's an example. You're driving to an interview. What happens if you spill coffee on your t-shirt? Or what happens if you forget your resume at home? Now you want to nail it. You want to go and prepare yourself against every single one of those negative outcomes and have a plan in place for if they come to fruition. Now you're left in a better spot because you know exactly where the dry cleaners are on the way to your interview and where you can go print out additional resumes. That is applying Stoic wisdom. If you like that, you're gonna love this book, Get Out of My Head, Andrew McConnell.