Practicality
“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails.”
William Arthur Ward
Rethinking Positive Thinking: How To Be Realistic & Still Have Goals
By Gabriele Oettingen
Wish, Outcome, Obstacle, Plan: The WOOP Technique
By Gabriele Oettingen
Imagining Failure: The Power Of Doing a Pre-Mortem
By Dan Pink
The Stoic Art Of Actively Anticipating Misfortune
By Ryan Holiday
""We would be wrong to jettison our dreams, just as we are wrong to blindly assume that simply dreaming something can make it so."
Practical Pessimism & The Value in Imagining The Worst Will Happen
By Tim Ferriss
A Principle For Success: Embrace Reality & Deal With it
By Ray Dalio
Intense Realism: Why We Need To See Things As They Are
By Robert Greene
How To Be A Realistic Optimist
By Ray Poole, Caroline Webb & Heidi Grant
The Power of Being Pessimistic & Why It Can Be Good For Us
By Einzelgänger, The Science Of Us & The School Of Life
Clips & Interviews
By Roelof Botha, Tony Robbins, Steve Magness & Philippe Korda
Insight
D.I.Y.
Tips & Webisodes
By Steven Johnson, Garry Tan & Brian Johnson
Podcasts
Podcast Clips
Huberman Lab
Frequently Visualizing Failure Increases the Probability of Reaching a Goal By ~2
Book Extracts
Positive Thinking Could Be Holding You Back
Taken from Rethinking Positive Thinking, by Gabriele Oettingen.
See Things For What They Are
Taken from The 50th Law, by 50 Cent & Robert Greene.
Embrace Reality And Deal With It
Taken from Principles, by Ray Dalio.