| There is an incredible amount of truth to the | | | | chair at the free-throw line and imagine swishing |
| reality that whatever you can imagine in your | | | | baskets one after another. The other group |
| mind you can achieve in the waking hours. Thus, | | | | would practice for the same amount of time |
| combining this strength of mind to your archery | | | | actually shooting the basketball into the hoop. |
| talents is a match made for the superstars of the | | | | When it came to game time it wasn't the |
| sport. There is a famous book on this topic, it is a | | | | basketball players that shot the basketball and |
| classic called; "Psycho Cybernetics," by Maltz | | | | practiced that had the highest free-throw |
| written in the late 1950s. | | | | statistics, rather it was the ones who sat and |
| He explains the power of the mind, and does not | | | | imagined that they had. |
| go into too much scientific detail because at the | | | | If we take this and apply it to the sport of |
| time we really didn't know that much, but he | | | | archery and we consider this psycho cybernetic |
| shows after many studies of athletes, movie | | | | strategy, we could predict that the archer who |
| stars, politicians, sports heroes, military generals, | | | | stared at the target and imagined hitting bull's-eye |
| and other notable human professions that the | | | | after bull's-eye would in fact win the event come |
| advantage goes to those who can imagine the | | | | the day of the competition. This provided that |
| outcome of the events prior to them happening in | | | | both archers had superior skill in archery to begin |
| reality. | | | | with. Guess what, it turns out that is correct, that |
| In one famous study basketball stars were | | | | is exactly what happened. Please consider all this. |
| divided into two groups. One group would sit in a | | | | |