The Cambridge English Dictionary has chosen 'manifest' as its 2024 word of the year.
'Manifest' - means to use the power of visualisation to will something into existence.
Singer Dua Lipa and Gymnast Simone Biles are two people who CLAIM to have 'manfisted' their success.
And these two are PERFECT examples of why the concept of manifesting is literally total bullshit.
Both of them started their passions - singing and gymnastics - at a very young age, and both of them are built for it - Simone is literally the PERFECT build for a gymnast, and Dua Lipa is just ludicrously attractive.
Swap them around and had Dua been manifesting all those gymnastics golds and Simone singing success they wouldn't have made it - Simone is too tall to be a super successful gymnast and Simone too chunky for the music industry to want her....
Easy to disprove the power of manifesting....
I mean I can't RN, but this would be a VERY easy theory to debunk. All you'd need to do is put out a simple survey asking people whether or not they practice manifesting, for those who say they do, ask them for details.
Then ask them whether or not whatever they had manifested has actually come into being.
I don't even think you'd need to be that particular about the sampling, just a random sample would do.
You'd find that many people who do it fail.
Not that there is no power....
I mean this is just positive thinking, right. Obviously if you have a goal, visualising yourself achieving that goal is going to help you realise it, BUT you need to have certain other things in place as well... in Dua Lipa's case you need to be able to sing and perform and be bear fit.
Someone else with all the same characteristics bar one can manifest themselves all they like performing at Glastonbury but it ain't gonna happen.
I will accept that positive thinking or manifesting can be the difference between success and failure, but only once you've got all the other things required for success in place first.
Manifesting alone will get you nowhere, but of course it's getting press because those who do succeed want to put it all down to their own super powers.
That is BS.