Managing the Inner Voice and Coping with Stress

The chapter explores tools and techniques individuals use to tackle their inner voice and handle stressors, from distant self-talk to seeking advice and connecting with nature. It emphasizes the duality of the inner voice as intuition and chatter, discussing the importance of self-talk in problem-solving, the harmful effects of rumination, and the role of the inner voice in sense-making and planning. The chapter also touches on autobiographical reasoning, crafting narratives to make sense of experiences, the impact of internal chatter on performance, and achieving a state of flow through challenges matching abilities.