Many people are unaware
that finding their path
and unearthing deeper
ambitions actually requires
mental practice.
Neuroanatomist Pascual
Leone famously explored
this idea in his imagination
experiments. Leone taught
two groups of people who
had never studied piano, a
sequence of notes, showing
them which fingers to
move and letting them
hear the notes as they
were played. The “mental
practice group” simply sat
in front of an electric piano
keyboard, two hours a day
for five days and imagined
both playing the sequence
and hearing it played. The
“physical practice group”
actually played the music.