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In this episode, I talk about the benefits of talking to yourself.

I know, this one's a bit bit weird but get ready because you are now listening to

tiny leaps. Big J-B. be. Welcome to another episode of Tiny Leaps. Big changes where I share simple strategies you can use to get more out of your life.

My name is Greg Clunice and in this episode I want to talk about the benefits of talking to yourself, especially out loud.

Now I am the kind of person that when I'm alone, primarily, I will talk to myself. I will go all in and I will, I'll get into it, I'll go into

character, I'll have different voices for different parts of the conversation, like it gets

weird. parts of the conversation like it gets weird and I started to think about you know is there any benefit to this whatsoever like why is it that I am

naturally trying to do this why is this something that I just sort of

slip into or am I just crazy and what I realized was there's actually quite a few really interesting benefits that come with it.

There's quite a few psychological benefits that come from talking to yourself out loud.

So for those of you out there who do this, who sort of naturally slip into this, whether at

the grocery store or wherever you are, don't feel too bad.

You're not that crazy, you are getting something out of it,

and that's what we're gonna talk about in today's episode.

So there are three primary things that I wanted to highlight.

Of course there's a lot more than that, but there's three specific ones I wanted to highlight.

So the first big benefit is that it allows you to make better decisions.

So there's this great quote from a professor of psychology at the University of Michigan.

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