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that's a good sign for the rest of the day. How many of you have ever heard of something called aphantasia? It's the inability to see things in your mind. I didn't know that people were all over the map on that. And apparently people don't — there are some people who don't think in images. I don't even know what to think about that, because I only do. And apparently the test, I was just seeing t…
← Previous segment →Or actually, yeah, they do more than seeing it. It's like they're seeing it plus something else, plus what they're adding, I guess.
Now here's another theory. You know, affirmations, the idea of visualizing your goals. I've had good luck anecdotally, not scientifically speaking, but anecdotally it seems like when I can visualize what I want really clearly, the odds of it happening are so close to 100 percent. And there are things that I tell myself I want that even I have trouble visualizing. It's more of a concept. I don't get those. But when I can see myself standing there, you know, I'm with a person or I got a bag of money or something, I really, really see it, damn it, it just seems to happen.
So that's one of the things I've been hypothesizing over a long time. Is it possible that the more clearly you can imagine something for your visualizations and your attainment of your success, is it possible that actually determines whether you'll be successful? That you can draw up a picture in your head? Because my theory is that that's one of the ways you program your brain, right?
If you think your brain is in charge of you and you're just doing what your brain's telling you, you're lost. You're just wandering around. But you should be able to use the executive function of your brain to do something like visualization, which should be effectively reprogramming your brain to make it more effective.
So reality is pretty subjective, and maybe that's all that's happening here. But it does seem to be that if you could visualize something clearly, the odds of it happening are pretty high.
All right. Twitter has become X. So now you're not sending tweets anymore. You're exclaiming. Somebody sent that on Twitter. If I remember to, I'd give them credit, but I don't remember who. I don't think we're going to use that one. We're not going to use that. It's not going to be exclaiming.
I think it's still going to be tweeting. What do you think? I think this is a Prince becoming the symbol, you know, the artist formerly known as Prince. Because I'm going to do the thing formerly
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known as tweeting, and then eventually I'm going to stop. I'm going to lose the formerly known as, and I'm just calling it tweeting again. So I'm going to say, well, I was Xing today, formerly known as tweeting, and I'll start just saying formerly known as tweeting. I'll drop the X, and then I'll drop the formerly known as tweeting, and I'll be right back to tweeting. That's how I'm going to play…
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