![]() I remember where I was when I had heard that Austin DeSanto had beaten Spencer Lee on a last second takedown in the 2017 Pennsylvania High School State Championships. ![]() To believe that despite the obstacles, the problems, the challenges, the headwinds you will get to your declared destination.ĭelusional optimism will reduce obstacles into solvable problems.ĭelusional optimism will provide the grit when logic says to quit.ĭelusional optimism will draw in all the resources necessary to persevere during discouraging plateaus, which will allow you to believe during times when others would doubt. The magic starts with being delusionally optimistic.ĭelusional optimism is the ingredient that is most needed to complete the journey. Immediately after setting the two points your subconscious mind will perform its magic and map out the journey.Īnd soon after, the whole Universe will aid you in unforeseen ways on your journey. Point B is where you want to be or what you want to accomplish. When you make that declaration to yourself you immediately set two points. The magical happens when you make a declaration to yourself that you are going to set your mind to accomplishing something extraordinary despite the challenges or obstacles in your way. It just doesn’t belong in your suitcase on your journey to greatness. You have to live in that world to do something great.” That last 10% is a leap of faith, an emotional connection, an irrational belief.īut the truth is, nothing worth having and nothing worth accomplishing, happens without that last part. ![]() “Life is 90% reason, rationality, discipline and organization. ![]() Scott Green, the head wrestling coach of Wyoming Seminary once profoundly said, Nothing magical ever happens being logical. Using trite affirmations with no grounding in reality only causes more frustration and cripples your performance.You can accomplish anything you set your mind to.Ĭoupled with hard work, grit and perseverance it can produce results far beyond anyone’s wildest expectations. The new information needs to be valid and true. However, your optimism needs to be informed. Informed Optimism (with editing).Īfter incorporating new, supportive information into your narrative, you're set on a positive and motivated trajectory. Your unedited story will lead you to crash and burn. If you fail to edit your narrative and reinterpret the negative information, no amount of motivation, willpower, or self-discipline will pull you through the "crises of meaning." A negative script dictating your life will only lead to failure and perpetual struggle. Related: Turning Crisis Into Opportunity: 5 Ways to Deal With Hardship 4. They experienced challenges in the "informed pessimism" stage and they internalized that negative information into their own script and storyline. It's the stage where Wilson implemented the intervention for the students. ![]() This stage is crucial for editing your personal narrative. I've adapted MIT lecturer Cameron Herold's model of the "transition curve," featured by Tim Ferriss, to explain the most crucial stages for editing your story: To effectively edit your story, you need to understand the five stages every personal narrative progresses through. In the control group that received no information, 25 percent of students dropped out by the end of their sophomore year, compared with 5 percent in the intervention group. The students in the intervention group significantly improved in their GPA over the next year, and were less likely to drop out. The goal was to prompt the students to edit their narratives to reinterpret their negative, self-defeating inner-dialogue. They also watched videos of upper-class students reinforcing this message. They were split into two groups the intervention group was informed that it's common for students to struggle in their freshmen year but improve as they adjust to college life. A study by Timothy Wilson, professor of psychology at the University of Virginia, took a group of college freshmen who struggled academically and felt intellectually inadequate. ![]()
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