Career DevelopmentMay 5, 2026
The Science of Mental Imagery: What Marden Knew in 1897, and What Neuroscience Finally Confirmed
A century before the first fMRI machine, Orison Swett Marden was arguing that vividly imagined experience reshapes the person doing the imagining. The data has caught up. Here is what serious mental-imagery practice actually looks like in 2026.