
“The man who has anticipated the coming of troubles takes away their power when they arrive.” — Seneca
The oldest tennis tournament in the world, Wimbledon, has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London, since 1877. Just above the players’ entrance to the Centre Court, the tournament’s main arena, inscribed are two lines from Rudyard Kipling’s “If:”
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same
There are a lot of things that don’t work in our current society. Our obsession with instant gratification, our desire to fix ourselves by all sorts of means…
But there’s one aspect that is often promoted as a magical solution to all our problems, when in fact is a double-edged sword.
Visualization.
Believe you can, think about it, over and over again, and you’re halfway there.
Visualizing triumph is easy.
But what about disaster?
What about visualizing the worst-case scenario? When everything that can go wrong does go wrong?
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