Gabriele Oettingen

There's been extensive research on this, that, uh, uh...

The work of Gabriele Oettingen.

She took people- And she asked them to do a visioning exercise.

Okay, picture that thing you want.

It can't argue with nine thirty PM, kitchen, glass in hand.

Another researcher, Gabriele Oettingen, found something important.

Positive thinking on its own actually makes people less likely to achieve goals.

Your brain treats the daydream of success as a small taste of it.

There is more research, which is really, really interesting.

So, Psychologist Gabriele Ottingen studied positive fantasies for decades.

across dieteers, students, job seekers, love seekers, and people recovering from injury, she found those with the strongest positive fantasies about reaching their goals were less likely to achieve them.

Those with the strongest fantasies of wanting to achieve their goals were less likely to achieve them.