The statistics say, visualization works

I'm always on the lookout for facts and figures to back up the things that I know work, but feel a little squishy to some. Visualization is one of those.

I found a great statistic to back up the effectiveness of visualization in an interview with Lee Pulos, Ph.D., author of The Power of Visualization. He points to an experiment the Soviets did with their 1980 Olympic team.

They split their athletes into four groups: Group A, one hundred percent physical practice, traditional; Group B, seventy-five percent physical, twenty-five percent mental; Group C, fifty-fifty; and Group D was seventy-five percent mental practice and twenty-five percent physical. Now these were all world-class athletes; they had all the skills. At the end of the Moscow Olympics and the Lake Placid Olympics, they counted the number of medals that each group had won. Group D, seventy-five percent mental, twenty-five percent physical, had won the most medals.

Pretty convincing, I'd say...

Curt Rosengren
Passion Catalyst ^SM

Comments

[Avi Solomon]

Audio interview with Dr. Pulos here:
Power of Visualization Interview

[Feng Shui House]

Seems like good decorating advice to me. Just remember to keep your home feng shui compliant.