499 - How to Psych Yourself Up with Good Self-Talk

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🗓️ 23 April 2018

⏱️ 5 minutes

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Self-talk, inner voices, self-criticism, and self-praise are all things we do to ourselves. But it may give you better results to engage in other-talk instead! Read the transcript at https://www.quickanddirtytips.com/productivity/learning/how-to-psych-yourself-up-with-good-self-talk Check out all the Quick and Dirty Tips shows: www.quickanddirtytips.com/podcasts FOLLOW GET-IT-DONE GUY Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/GetItDoneGuy Twitter: https://twitter.com/GetItDoneGuy

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0:00.0	This is Steveer Robbins.
0:01.9	Welcome to the Get It Done guys, quick and dirty tips to work less and do more.
0:09.0	Today's topic is how to be more productive through self-talk.
0:13.1	Thomas is troubled.
0:14.5	As of his most recent birthday, he's Europa's 16-year-old cybernetic genius son,
0:18.9	and he's discovering that having an IQ of 420 doesn't help
0:22.2	one bit when it comes to emotional issues like—like getting up the nerve to ask someone to the junior
0:28.1	prom.
0:29.4	We all have emotions, and emotions control far more of our behavior than we usually like to admit.
0:34.8	Oh, you know, we get upset because a drop of wine spilled on our nice
0:37.6	white carpet, so we do the logical thing. We yell and scream and insist that our life has been
0:41.8	ruined forever, and it will require mortgaging the house to fix a red wine stain. Our schmuppies say
0:46.8	things like, Honeybug, you're pretty upset and being irrational right now. And in our glorious
0:53.0	emotional state, we just know we're being
0:55.4	as rational as it's possible to be. So we yell back at the top of our lungs, no, I'm not. I'm being
1:00.4	completely rational. A week later, after we get released from the happy place with padded walls,
1:05.5	we get a bottle of gonzo, squirt a little bit on the carpet, and the wine stain comes up with
1:09.4	about 13 seconds worth of work.
1:11.6	Our emotions often come about because of our internal dialogue.
1:14.6	If you're about to give a speech, you probably prepare yourself mentally by talking to yourself.
1:19.3	Some people say things like,
1:20.7	this is going to be a total disaster. I'll probably stutter.
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