The Importance of Inner Monologue

2min Snip

00:00

Play full episode

Summary

Transcript

Episode notes

Benda: The relationship we have with ourselves is definitely the longest and often the most tumultuous relationship of our lives. Seeing that we treat ourselves so much worse than we treat other people should be a sign that something has to shift, Benda says. "What this really looks like is challenging yourself to respond to your own needs as if you were responding to the needs of someone you love"

Read the full transcript here.

To increase our chances of success (in whatever domain and using definition of success), should we focus on boosting our strengths or shoring up our weaknesses? Are we harsher in our critiques of ourselves than in our critiques of others? What should an ideal inner monologue be like? What are some useful taxonomies of pain? Are there times when irrational, magical, emotionally-driven, and/or delusional types of thinking are useful?

Anna Paley is insatiably curious about how best to live our lives. She is a behavioral scientist and marketing professor at Tilburg University in the Netherlands. She received her PhD from New York University, Stern School of Business in 2017. You can reach her at a.paley@tilburguniversity.edu.

Staff