Lurid Fantasies
Yet there’s an important caveat to this process. For any “recovering” High-FF aiming to adopt the behaviours of those with high achievement motivation alarm bells should have been ringing during the 10-year visualization exercise as we may have indulged ourselves in the most lurid fantasies imaginable. We are encouraged to “play a role”, which means many of us could well have lost ourselves opting for the Beverley Hills mansion with its own recording studio, a guitar-shaped swimming pool and lots of gorgeous and sexually-available people hanging on to our every word.
Despite what many self motivators will say, such fantasies could well be inappropriate goals, not because they are out of reach but because, as High-FFs, we chose ...
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