Puri: Tony Robbins' 'Dickens Method' makes inaction more painful than change

“The Dickens method is a, it's a technique where you sort of vividly imagine, you time travel to the future. You're like, okay, let's play it forward a year. Let's play it forward five years. I'm still doing it. I'm keep doing it. I do more of it. In fact, because I am increasing whatever the bad habit, whatever the decisions, whatever the thing I'm doing is. And you play it forward. And then how does that affect you? How does that affect the people that you love? And he sort of gets you to sort of go there. And yeah, you know, like when I did it, when I went to his event, it was like you know, I wasn't really going through much at the time. So it was, I was like, I don't know what this exercise for, but around me, there was literally people like screaming. It was honestly a very uncomfortable moment. But people were really feeling something in that moment where if you play it forward and you vividly imagine what the future looks like five years later, 10 years later, 15 years later, And how that affects all the people around you, it creates this, like, emotional charge where it gives you, again, ah, the pain of not changing increases over the pain of change”

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