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Why the Voice Inside Your Head Can Sound Like a Jerk

Plain English with Derek Thompson

CHAPTER

The Level Three Tactics

How do we climb far enough above our thoughts to see them with clarity and remove ourselves from that looping negativity? You talked earlier about meditation. That's one tool that people can use to try to get this objectivity. There are other distancing tools we can use. We can, ah do something called distant self talk. This is a linguistic tool that involves using your name to give yourself adice like you would give advice to some one else.

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