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If you were to just picture a future reality and stop there, you technically wouldnt be prospecting.
With prospecting, youre considering various potential futures in a way that guides your present actions.
and What hopeful outcome might happen?
But its actually not good for our brains and bodies to operate in a pessimistic space.
This can also help you train yourself to view uncertainty as an opportunity versus as a threat.
psychiatrist and author ofTomorrowmind
Being able to prospect about the future is a strategy to develop agency amid all of todays volatility.
Figuring out how to actually move toward the most desirable future outcome is the second phase of prospective thinking.
This planning part tends to last longer, says Dr. Kellerman.
(The instinctive optimism of phase one isfollowed by a cautious evaluationof potential obstacles in phase two.)
Its more deliberative, evaluative, and realistic.
At this point, future thinking can get a bad rep.
Her best advice for healthy future thinking is to really embrace phase one.
Really flex your imagination.
Youre trying to activate this rich body of ideas and associations and connections thats available to you.
psychiatrist and author ofTomorrowmind
The catastrophic thought might say, Im getting fired.
(For this example, it might be that theyre getting promoted.)
And naturally, thats essential to achieving the goal at hand.
So, if X obstacle occurs, then I will do Y.
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