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The School of Knowledge's avatar

The Stoics used to do this as well.

I also read somewhere that if you refer to yourself in the third person “what would Gia do in this situation” that it can help with making decisions you otherwise might have struggled with.

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Giacomo Falcone's avatar

Yes, the third person reference worked as well 🙂

Did not know about the Stoics.

Could you share some examples?

Thanks

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Gaurav Jain's avatar

Love this, will definitely try this out!

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Giacomo Falcone's avatar

I think most of us have tried it at some point, maybe not consciously, but the effects were real.

Don’t you think?

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The Effective Project Manager's avatar

This is interesting. I used to imagine myself as Goku lol.

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Giacomo Falcone's avatar

Works great, right?

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Giuseppe A. D'Angelo's avatar

I'm not skeptic, but a bit doubtful. Asking "what person X would do" implies we know and have the same skills and character of X. But this is not something we can make up, at least not every time (if I knew what a CEO would do, I'd be a CEO, wouldn't I?). I'm more for thinking about your past successes and ask "what the me of that time would do?".

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Giacomo Falcone's avatar

I get it, Giuseppe.

And what you prefer works too (i.e. thinking about your successful past “you”).

In the end it’s the psychological distance from our emotions that makes the magic.

And if we can do that by thinking about us in the past, that works too.

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Abhishek Singh's avatar

never thought there would be a Batman effect!

and the timing of this post couldn't have been better. I wrote a post on me wanting to be Batman last week.

https://anotherabhishek.substack.com/p/i-want-to-be-batman

If I knew about the Batman effect, I would've used it in my blog as well😁

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Giacomo Falcone's avatar

Lovely read!

Thanks for sharing 🙂

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