There's certainly vision science that's tied up in that very first stage of of goal setting , like identifying what that goal is in the first place and taking those first steps , a lot of people's go to strategies that involve vision are are vision boards or dream boards or , you know , post it notes , right ? They're creating some sort of visual representation of what it is that they want to accomplish ? Where is it that I want to be in five years ?
And is there any physiology or physiological changes , I should say to reflect the idea that maybe just visually focusing on the start line would actually get me more excited as opposed to make me less excited to engage in effort . There's certainly vision science that's tied up in that very first stage of of goal setting , like identifying what that goal is in the first place and taking those first steps , a lot of people's go to strategies that involve vision are are vision boards or dream boards or , you know , post it notes , right ? They're creating some sort of visual representation of what it is that they want to accomplish ?
Where is it that I want to be in five years ? 10 days , 10 years , whatever , whatever that timeline is that they're working under the idea of vision boards or dream boards is that you like , you know , almost like a scrapbook , collect visual icons that reflect where you want to be to motivate yourself . It's a really common tactic that people use and it's not bad to do that , right ?
Defining the goal can be really challenging for people . And that's a strategy that works and involves our visual experience , right ? It's not just people aren't saying like , why don't you just sit around and and imagine what you want your life to be like in 10 years , the strategy that people are suggesting is like no cut out the pictures , put it on a board and stick it by your bathroom mirror .
I actually now don't have the physiological resources at the ready to take the first step right now to do something about that . So , so that was a pretty monumental um uh finding for motivation scientists to understand that like creating these dream boards , these vision boards or to do this might actually backfire because it in and 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 so much for the secret .
