Tell Yourself a Story From the Other Side
A mental exercise for when you’re feeling outmatched
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4 min readMay 19, 2020
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Sometimes, when I feel outmatched by the thing in front of me, I do a little mental exercise: I pretend I’m on the other side and tell the story of what happened as if I’d nailed it. If I’m struggling to write, for instance, I might imagine being at some future book reading and telling the audience that I…