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Is Your Inner Voice an Asshole?
When you talk about your inner voice, or when people discuss it, for the most part, they see it as an adversary. We need to be more attuned to potential threats and losses than than gains from a survival point of view. When that inner voice runs off track, when it morfs into the kind of negative self talk or self dialogue, the inner critic perks up. One of my favorite descriptions i write about this in my book is dan harris, who describes his inner voice as an asshole. It really grabs our attention in ways that are uncomfortable, makes it hard for us to think and perform,. undermines our relationships and health. And so we often try to do something about