We can't find evidence that holds up here. Proponents are reasoning from mechanism or analogy rather than direct human data, and the most credible skeptics raise objections we can't dismiss.
So then it helps us to understand of like, "Okay, if I've just created this dream board, this vision board, and put myself psychologically in that space of a goal satisfied, why is it bad that blood pressure goes down? Because it means your body is chilling out, it's like, "All right, cool, I just accomplished something pretty major," right? "I actually now don't have the physiological resources at the ready to take the first step right now to do something about that."
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But it may not actually be effective for helping you to meet the goal, to get the job done. So, colleagues of mine at New York University um have probed why. Why is that? Why is just, you know, thinking about what you want in your life and um and sort of putting yourself vicariously into those shoes, imagining what my life will be like if I can accomplish everything on this list, why doesn't that work? Well, first of all, does it work? The answer is no.
So, so that was a pretty monumental, uh, finding for motivation scientists to understand that like creating these dream boards, these vision boards, or to-do lists might actually backfire because it in it in it of itself is the creation of a goal and the satisfaction of the goal, and then people understandably give themselves some time to just enjoy that positive experience.