Areté +1° #36: WOOP! There It Is. #1595

Hi, this is Brian. Welcome back to another Areté +1°

Gabriele Oettingen is a world-class researcher and Professor of Psychology at New York University. She’s spent her career studying the science of making your dreams a reality.

In her great book Rethinking Positive Thinking, she tells us that it’s not enough to simply visualize our ideal life vision-board style. Although it’s super important to start with a vision of our ideal lives, we then need to “rub it up against reality.”