Can visualisation help you achieve a better future? | BBC Ideas – YouTube Dictation Transcript & Vocabulary
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1.Boxing legend Muhammad Ali once wrote, "If my mind can conceive it, and my heart can believe it, then I can achieve it." But is that really true
2.Visualisation - or mental imagery, as it's called in psychology - means creating a vivid experience in your mind first, using the same senses as we use to perceive the world around us in real life
3.And it's a tool that's long been used by and elite athletes
4.Visualisation is like seeing with the mind's eye
5.While humans can think in either words or images, images are faster to retrieve in your mind and can feel more real
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Key Vocabulary (CEFR C2)
visualising
B1To envisage, or form a mental picture (of something).
Example:
"by visualising a better future?"
decisions
A2The act of deciding.
Example:
"when making important decisions about the future"
basically
A2In a fundamental, essential or basic manner
Example:
"basically means creating a vivid experience in your mind first,"
footballers
B1One who plays association football.
Example:
"And it's a tool that's long been used by footballers"
activated
A2To encourage development or induce increased activity; to stimulate.
Example:
"when you imagine is that related areas of the brain are activated"
movements
A2Physical motion between points in space.
Example:
"the part of your brain involved in hand and arm movements"
communities
B1A group sharing a common understanding, and often the same language, law, manners, and/or tradition.
Example:
"My colleagues and I worked with traumatised communities"
scenarios
A2An outline of the plot of a dramatic or literary work.
Example:
"This includes potential obstacles and the scenarios"
customers
A2A patron, a client; one who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant, or intends to do so.
Example:
"This really helped her empathise with her prospective customers"
lifting
A2To raise or rise.
Example:
"DR RADHA MODGIL: This means that if you imagine lifting weights,"
| Word | CEFR | Definition |
|---|---|---|
| visualising | B1 | To envisage, or form a mental picture (of something). |
| decisions | A2 | The act of deciding. |
| basically | A2 | In a fundamental, essential or basic manner |
| footballers | B1 | One who plays association football. |
| activated | A2 | To encourage development or induce increased activity; to stimulate. |
| movements | A2 | Physical motion between points in space. |
| communities | B1 | A group sharing a common understanding, and often the same language, law, manners, and/or tradition. |
| scenarios | A2 | An outline of the plot of a dramatic or literary work. |
| customers | A2 | A patron, a client; one who purchases or receives a product or service from a business or merchant, or intends to do so. |
| lifting | A2 | To raise or rise. |
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