179. Can You Really “Manifest” Success Through Positive Visualization?
Sunday 21 January 2024
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Is there any scientific basis for the law of attraction? Are people who believe in “cosmic collaboration” more successful? And what happens when you write yourself a check for $10 million?
- SOURCES:
- Rhonda Byrne, writer and TV producer.
- Jim Carrey, actor.
- Christopher Clarey, sports journalist and author.
- Peter Gollwitzer, professor of psychology at New York University.
- Dave Levin, co-founder and executive director of KIPP Public Charter Schools.
- Gabriele Oettingen, professor of psychology at New York University.
- Wallace Wattles, self-help writer.
- RESOURCES:
- "'The Secret' to Success? The Psychology of Belief in Manifestation," by Lucas J. Dixon, Matthew J. Hornsey, and Nicole Hartley (Personality and Social Psychology Bulletin, 2023).
- "Making Dreams Come True: Inside the New Age World of Manifesting," by Stuart McGurk (The Guardian, 2022).
- "TikTok's ‘Manifesting’ Craze, Explained," by Stuart McGurk (GQ, 2021).
- "From Feeling Good to Doing Good," by Gabriele Oettingen and Peter M. Gollwitzer (The Oxford Handbook of Positive Emotion and Psychopathology, 2019).
- "Self-Regulation of Time Management: Mental Contrasting With Implementation Intentions," by Gabriele Oettingen, Heather Barry Kappes, Katie B. Guttenberg, and Peter M. Gollwitzer (European Journal of Social Psychology, 2015).
- "Olympians Use Imagery as Mental Training," by Christopher Clarey (The New York Times, 2014).
- “Self-Fulfilling Prophecy,” by R. Rosenthal (Encyclopedia of Human Behavior - Second Edition, 2012).
- The Secret, by Rhonda Byrne (2006).
- The Science of Getting Rich, by Wallace Wattles (1910)
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