psychologist on brain rewiring and expectation
by Katrina Karan: Mental Health
Expecting positive outcomes is the engine for neural rewiring toward success according to a psychologist. that mindset cuts stress and anxiety while driving years of training like chasing gold to land silver. you have to imagine something exists before exploring it.
Transcript (en)
If we expect positive events in our future, stress and anxiety is reduced. If you expect the gold medal, that motivates you to put in the effort to train, you know, for four years before the Olympics, for example. So you might, in the end, not get the gold medal, but the idea is that you need to expect the gold medal in order to get the silver. And so it acts as a motivation. In order to explore something new, you have to imagine that there's something out there for you to find.
