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Visualize your future and step towards it: Looking around to see the limits of motivational techniques

December 17, 2025

Look again at the strange and impossible meme above. It tries to visualise the rationale of the motivational technique in which you ‘visualise your future and step towards it’. In theory, visualising where you want to be makes you more likely to visualise and practice the things you do to make that future possible. Hence, … More Visualize your future and step towards it: Looking around to see the limits of motivational techniques

“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show”. 

December 8, 2024

“Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show”. (Charles Dickens: the first sentence of David Copperfield (1849-50)). Visualizing the future self and the use of memories of past visualisations when that future presents itself. I have always … More “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether that station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show”.