“The solution isn’t to do away with dreaming ... Rather, it’s making the most of our fantasies by brushing them up against the very thing most of us are taught to ignore or diminish: the obstacles that stand in our way.” - Gabriele Oettingen Professor Gabriele Oettingen tears through traditional notions of motivation and success. Her 20 years of research focus on the perils of positive thinking, and the science of how focusing on obstacles has been proven to help people achieve their goals. Gabriele is the author of more than 100 articles and book chapters on thinking about the future and the control of cognition, emotion, and behavior. She is now a professor of psychology at New York University and the University of Hamburg. In this episode we cover: - Her WOOP framework for engineering motivation, clarity, followthrough - Why dreaming makes you less motivated - Why dreamers are prone to depression - Identifying the correct obstacles in your way You can check out her book Rethinking Positive Thinking as well as her website mywooplife.org