Thinking about the negative impact of failing a goal increases the likelihood of achieving it.

“But that it's not terrific for putting you in constant pursuit of that goal, rather, foreshadowing failure, visualizing failure and all the terrible things that it's going to bring, seems to be more effective.”

“foreshadowing failure turns out to be the best way to motivate toward goal pursuit.”

“the truth is you should be thinking mainly about how bad it's really going to get if you don't do it. How disappointing yourself you're going to feel. How it will negatively impact you if not in the immediate term, in the long term, if indeed your goal is to reach your goal.”

“If you look at the literature, the scientific literature, there's a near doubling near doubling in the probability of reaching one's goal. If you focus routinely on foreshadowing failure, you think about the ways in which things could fail if you take action A or you take action B and instead therefore you take action C.”

“having both in your toolkit is great you know visualizing success um can be useful in some contexts visualizing the negative effects of not staying in pursuit of a goal also can be uh very motivating”

“fearing the worst case outcome it's placing some real time on fearing the negative thing that happens if we don't do something”