“Visioning: Concretely Imagining What You Want” by Gretta Duleba, johnswentworth

When John told me (Gretta) his practice of “visioning,” I was skeptical at first. I gave it a try, a little bit out of spite, to show him I was capable of it. It blew me away. Here's what I told him about it a few days later, edited for brevity and clarity. Something internal really felt different. Awake, alive, hungry, energetic. Selfish. A little angry. Do you know the 1984 Apple Macintosh ad? Ignore the specific words and politics and computer-adness of it all, and just feel the energy of the woman with the hammer. That energy. Holy shit. What the fuck. What kind of drug did you give me? I sat on it for a few hours, getting dinner ready, doing parenting things, trying to think what to do with it. I mean, obviously, the answer was "mainline that drug." I don't really trust epiphanies. I don't really trust this. If there were a prediction market for "will Gretta think this was a breakthrough [in one month]" I would probably bet that market to about 15%. But... 15% is a lot. I started visioning four months ago and I do still think it was a [...] ---Outline:(01:47) What is visioning?(02:44) What visioning does for us(03:27) Some example John-visions(04:39) Some example Gretta-visions(07:20) John's history with visioning(08:40) Gretta's history with visioning(09:47) Finding your heart(09:50) The "voice of god"(10:53) How to do it / best practices(10:57) Gretta's method(12:45) John's method(14:16) Best practices(15:24) Does this work for people who are not us?(17:32) Failure modes and drawbacks(20:14) Related work / What visioning is not(22:22) Open questions and future work --- First published: July 6th, 2026 Source: https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/j3Min7Kj5SDF7BEzM/visioning-concretely-imagining-what-you-want --- Narrated by TYPE III AUDIO. ---Images from the article:Apple Podcasts and Spotify do not show images in the episode description. Try Pocket Casts, or another podcast app.