"Champions are made from something they have deep inside them -- a desire, a dream, a vision."

Muhammad Ali

The Power of Imagination

"The man who has no imagination has no wings"

Muhammad Ali

An experiment carried out at the University of Chicago proved beyond doubt the power of imagined experience.

A number of people were divided into three groups, then they were tested on shooting basketball foul shots. The groups were given the following instructions:



Group 1— Did not practice foul shots for 30 days.

Group 2— Practiced foul shots every day for 30 days.

Group 3— Practiced foul shots only in their mind (imagined experience) for 30 days.

After 30 days the three groups were tested again and the results, compared to their initial performance were as follows:



Group 1— Showed no improvement at all.


Group 2— Showed a 24% improvement.

Group 3— Improved by 23% improvement.

Interesting: Group 2 had literally practiced with the ball shooting baskets every day for one month. Group 3 had not seen nor touched a basketball for 30 days. It practiced only with imagination.

http://transformingmlm.typepad.com/itstime/2010/02/experience-is-the-best-teacher-but.html
Read the entire article in “Psycho-Cybernetics” by Dr. Maxwell Maltz