If you can’t describe what you believe in detail, do you really believe it? Could you explain your reasons to others? Can you make a coherent, cogent case as to why you expect these actions will generate the outcome you seek?
One reason some struggle to believe is that they have not done the work to lay out a plausible path to the outcome they seek. As described elsewhere in this book, the more audacious your objective, the less likely you are to know all the details of how it will actually come to be (see, for example, Figure 2). However, if you can’t describe one way that it might come to be in such a way that it is plausible to believe it could happen, you are highly likely to fail to act sufficiently to bring it to pass.
As you learn more details through acting, you can and should revise your best understanding of a plausible path to your outcome.
The more vivid your expectations, the more motivating they will be. Details can pull you through almost any obstacle.
If you don’t have details, you will never have strong enough desires to achieve the outcomes you desire. If you don’t have details, you will never have strong enough reasons to persevere through obstacles that tend to increase in frequency and intensity commensurate with the value of the outcome. If you don’t have details, you will never make all the right choices necessary for the outcomes you seek, which tend to increase in frequency and importance commensurate with the value of the outcome.
Details are not without cost. The more vivid your expectations, the more you will be tempted to be disappointed when you are proven wrong. Don’t be. Every additional piece of revelation is a step that brings you closer to what you seek. Being correct from step one does not yield your outcome. Learning where you need to improve to get there does.