I thought this was not entirely without merit.

The approach this applies is to feed you leading questions, where the questions suppose that you're successful and ask you why this is.

The article dismisses protests of “but I'm not successful” by inviting you to write any old aspirational guff, and then points out that there's probably a nugget of truth in there somewhere.

I haven't come across this approach before, and I think it could be a neat trick to get out of a funk.