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Pre-practice is a very good way to ensure one doesn't react according to emotional imperatives. For example it can help with social awkwardness, & driving skills. Athletes use it to improve their performance, by seeing themselves running the perfect race or throwing the perfect pass etc.

By pre-playing things in mind, we can interrupt the normal response & substitute reasoned responses so we react optimally. The brain even forms new connections based on the imagined path that are then useful in real-life events.