Good point -- however my comment still stands for the most part. It depends on the purpose of you visualizing success. Visualizing yourself accomplishing somet

Good point -- however my comment still stands for the most part. It depends on the purpose of you visualizing success. Visualizing yourself accomplishing something as simple as quenching thirst is completely missing the point IMHO (unless you believe in the magical "The Secret" silliness), per my previous argument. Visualizing yourself accomplishing greater things serves multiple purposes: 1. Energizes oneself in the current moment. 2. Opens your mind to the possibilities of accomplishing greater things. i.e. If you think small, thinking of accomplishing big things will make you believe you can, and hence have greater capacity and motivation to bring it to fruition. 3. Get your subconscious mind started on pondering how to achieve that success. #3 here may actually relate to the article. There may be two opposing factors at work -- on one end your mind ponders how to achieve the success, on the other hand your mind feels satisfied already, which prevents you from taking action and consciously looking further into achieving the success. Which is stronger? In the study it appears the latter is in the cases tested. However, I highly doubt a standard answer can be derived from a few limited cases. I would think there are just too many factors.