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Plain English with Derek Thompson cover image

Why the Voice Inside Your Head Can Sound Like a Jerk

Plain English with Derek Thompson

CHAPTER

Negative Self Talk - What Is It?

We internally talk to ourselves at a rate equivalent to speaking four thousand words per minute out loud. A negative self talk is when there's just negative content that you are saying, juoh, i screwed up, or, i made a mistake. The difference between negative self talk and what i call chatter is chatter involves getting stuck on a negative thought loop. We don't come up with clear solutions, and we start spinning instead in ways that are enormously difunctional.

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