Hey, everybody, Steve, I'm all in you from Freedom, Maine. So I put a tweet out a couple of weeks ago that seemed to

guide us some interest. I wanted to put some more details behind it, what it's like living without

an inner monologue. And look, it's not a good or bad or plus or a minus. It's just really,

really important to embrace the diversity of human

thought. So this is from CBC. Well, you know, they're taking my tax money. I might as well get the

article out of it. So the article here starts, hi there, are you hearing this sentence in your head

right now? Well, I guess because I'm narrating it, you are. Is your inner critic voicing its thoughts on the sentence structure? Is it saying this is an odd start to a news story? The concept of an inner monologue, the term now commonly used to describe the voice in your head, recently sparked a flurry of discussion on social media. A tweet by a kaya Plant emoji, blah, blah, blah, brought the topic into the forefront,

informing the internet that not everyone has an inner monologue.

And as when I posted it, and I first learned about this a couple of years ago,

when I posted it, there's a certain amount of shock and horror.

You know, for those of us who are ADHD hyper-Hamlet types, constantly arguing and debating

with ourselves and having to deal with a cacophony, a multiplicity of aspects of ourselves,

they call alter egos or altars.

I call it the mico system like I'm not just a me.

I'm a me plus influential

people I've met. What would Jesus do? And so on. So there's a lot that goes on. And for people

who don't have these sort of inner voice or inner voices, it's a very different kind of life.

Now, most of the people who follow what I do would have that sort of inner debate, inner dialogue, inner voice, because we're into philosophy, we're into self-knowledge, we're into self-criticism, and so on. And, I mean, I write plays and novels, and I do role plays in call-in shows with listeners if there's a particular, say, family member who I need to get a sense of how they think. I'll ask that person to imitate their family member. I'll pretend to be them. So you can just sort of adopt these sort of other voices and other characteristics and so on. And you can't be a good novelist, of course, if you can't figure out how other people speak and think. So, I mean, there's pluses and minuses for sure. I mean, the plus is, I think, a more

structured and self-critical form of thinking. The minuses is it's easy to get paralyzed with

overthinking. So, again, strengths and weaknesses to both. All right. So this woman,

sorry, this man, Kyle wrote, fun fact. Some people have an internal narrative and some

don't. As in some people's thoughts are like sentences they hear and some people just have

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