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How to ACTUALLY Achieve Your Goals (Backed by Science)

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  1. — Introduction: The Secret Sold 30 Million Lies and Science Proves It 01:10 The NYU Study: Why the Best Visualizers Earned
  2. — Your Brain Books the Fantasy as Payment: The Blood Pressure Experiment 04:52 Rehearse the Funeral: The 2000-Year-Old Bud
  3. — The Five-Step Anti-Manifestation System: Write Your Business Obituary 10:21 The Stockdale Paradox: Optimists Died in Pri
  4. — Jeff Bezos Told Investors 70 Percent Chance of Total Failure 12:53 Swap the Movie: Visualize the Process, Not the Outcom
  5. — Swap the Oracle: Ask the Market for Receipts, Not the Universe for Vibes 20:29 The WOOP Method: Wish, Outcome, Obstacle,

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My new book, Own Or Be Owned, is all about building a business so good it doesn't need you.

It's out September 18, grab your ticket to the launch event here: https://contrarianthinking.biz/oobo_bigdeal - cs You've been visualizing success.

Trusting the universe to deliver.

Here's the truth: the more vividly you fantasize about success, the worse you perform.

The Secret sold 30 million copies by promising that if you visualize wealth hard enough, the universe will deliver it.

But two decades of research shows the opposite.

NYU psychologists tracked college graduates and found that students who spent the most time in positive fantasies about their dream jobs sent out fewer applications, got fewer offers, and earned lower salaries two years later.

Your brain books the fantasy as a partial payment on the real thing, giving you the reward before you've done the work.

This episode breaks down the exact frameworks elite builders use instead, why Buddhist monks sit with decaying bodies to rehearse death, and the three anti-manifestation moves that turn goals into reality.

From the Stoic practice of premeditation of evils to the WHOOP method that doubles your odds of success, you'll learn why imagining failure makes you stronger and how to engineer systems that make your obituary impossible.

In this episode, you'll learn: Why NYU research proves that positive fantasies kill performance and how students who visualized success earned 24 pounds less in weight loss studies and lower salaries than peers who confronted reality The five step anti-manifestation practice: write your business obituary, name what caused the death, run the survival check, extract the system, and put it on the calendar quarterly The Stockdale Paradox: why optimists died in Vietnam POW camps and how brutal faith in the destination plus brutal honesty about the path is what separates winners from wishful thinkers Why announcing goals out loud makes you quit 33% faster and how premature applause becomes a paycheck your brain cashes before the work exists The WHOOP framework: Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan, and how this method doubles your odds of hitting goals by naming the exact moment resistance shows up and engineering the if-then response in advance And one more thing for the business owners: stop making million dollar decisions alone!

Join the Contrarian Growth Boardroom and get a board of advisors to help with every decision: https://contrarianthinking.biz/bdbr ___________ 00:00 Introduction: The Secret Sold 30 Million Lies and Science Proves It 01:10 The NYU Study: Why the Best Visualizers Earned Less and Got Fewer Jobs 04:04 Your Brain Books the Fantasy as Payment: The Blood Pressure Experiment 04:52 Rehearse the Funeral: The 2000-Year-Old Buddhist Practice of Mindfulness of Death 07:04 The Five-Step Anti-Manifestation System: Write Your Business Obituary 10:21 The Stockdale Paradox: Optimists Died in Prison and Realists Survived 11:52 Jeff Bezos Told Investors 70 Percent Chance of Total Failure 12:53 Swap the Movie: Visualize the Process, Not the Outcome 13:58 Swap the Audience: Shut Up and Stop Announcing Your Goals 16:02 Swap the Oracle: Ask the Market for Receipts, Not the Universe for Vibes 20:29 The WOOP Method: Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan 21:25 The Future Belongs to People Who Face the Funeral and Build Anyway ___________ MORE FROM BIGDEAL 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@podcastbigdeal 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bigdeal.podcast 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@big.deal.pod MORE FROM CODIE SANCHEZ 🎥 YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@codiesanchezct 📸 Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/codiesanchez 📽️ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@realcodiesanchez OTHER THINGS WE DO 🌐 Our community: https://contrarianthinking.typeform.com/to/WBztXXID 📰 Free newsletter: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3XWLlZp 📚 Biz buying course: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3NhjGgN 🏠 Resibrands: https://resibrands.com/ 💰 CT Capital: https://contrarianthinking.biz/4eRyGOk 🏦 Main St Hold Co: https://contrarianthinking.biz/3YfGa8u Learn more about your ad choices.

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