G-Scotland,
The psychologists are proposing exactly what you're suggesting. By giving yourself a vivid image of having achieved it, you're suggesting to your brain that it can chill out on this goal. They still saw an improvement in attainment in people who visualized the goal, but the success rate of people who visualized the process to getting there was significantly better.
I'll e-mail you the file as a bitmap, unless you have eMindmaps.
It is Paul Scheele that makes the statement about being able to learn only things we already know. I can hear him saying it in my mind, so I'm thinking it's on the tape. I suppose it might also be in the book.
[This message has been edited by mgrego2 (edited January 19, 2001).]
