Everybody knows how to psych themselves up. You visualize the outcome you want, or you remind yourself you have accomplished your goal before, or you find any number of ways to assure yourself you can do what you’re trying to do. “The most evocative one for me is literally running down a line where thousands of people are giving me high fives,” says Alison Adcock, thinking of a motivational image once described by a research participant. “But I don't actually know that that was the ...
