Defensive pessimism. Imagine how/why you will fail at your goal. Imagine concrete steps. Write it all down, revise when something different happens.
Gads, no. I’ve got a brain that sees things potential problems. I’ve concluded that spending your time picturing failure is a great way to invoke akrasia—by focusing on failure scenarios, you develop an availability bias for failure scenarios. I call that the “futility bias”.
I need to spend more time imagining how things will succeed.
Gads, no. I’ve got a brain that sees things potential problems. I’ve concluded that spending your time picturing failure is a great way to invoke akrasia—by focusing on failure scenarios, you develop an availability bias for failure scenarios. I call that the “futility bias”.
I need to spend more time imagining how things will succeed.
I hope you realize the irony in imagining yourself failing at the imagining yourself failing exercise.
If imagining a failure brings akrasia, what’s wrong about imagining oneself failing at doing undesired things?
The dangerous thing is imagining oneself failing at things one wants to happen.