Visualisation and Believing, I was in the park today, and for the first round when I tried to run across it, it didn’t happen. I stopped halfway, then tried again, but I stopped somewhere in between very early.
But then, as we know, it’s all in the mind.
Next time, I remembered that pushup thing that I had done.
I remembered how I had visualized myself, how I had brought my morale up. Morale is a great thing. So then I stood there for one minute, maybe 2, just visualising how it would be like to run across here.
Funnily, I don’t think I had any idea, I don’t think I really ‘visualised’, but whatever I did, it made my brain prepare for what’s to come and believe that I can do it.
And then for the both times I did this, I completed the job.
What’s the learning from this? Well, it’s that whenever you’re doing anything in life, especially anything new - don’t try to brute force it.
Visualize yourself doing it, think how would you do this if it was easy.
Train your mind, your ‘axe’ first, before you attempt the task.
That’s how you conquer the task like a poet and not like a peasant. (thanks parag sir from Catalyser for sharing beautiful examples of the poet and the peasant in maths problems, now I can use the same thing here.)
~love nmn