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UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

84. Talking to Yourself

UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

Kara Loewentheil

Health & Fitness, Mental Health, Education, Self-improvement, Philosophy, Society & Culture

4.65.5K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2019

⏱️ 17 minutes

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Summary

Dr. James Gills is a brilliant ocular surgeon who said, "I talk to myself more than I listen to myself," and when I heard this, it stopped me in my tracks. Most of us know that listening to others usually does us good, but we don't realize that we also often listen to what our brain tells us to think. Today, I want to shed some light on how you can start to talk to your brain in a proactive way that will positively change the discourse in your mind.

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0:00.0

Welcome to Unfucked your brain, the only podcast that teaches you how to use psychology, feminism, and coaching to rewire your brain

0:16.3

and get what you want in life.

0:18.6

And now here's your host, Harvard Law School grad, Feminist Rockstar, and Master Coach,

0:24.7

Kara Loyenthyle.

0:25.9

Hello my chickens, how are you guys? How are you all? Chickens, foul, people of any

0:37.4

gender, not just guys? I am excited today. I'm like mentally a little bit exhausted but also really excited because I am doing

0:48.6

a lot of planning for next year in the Unfuck Your Brain universe,

0:52.8

and there are some big changes coming.

0:55.1

So I'm gonna tell you more about those

0:56.8

at the end of this episode, so make sure you listen,

0:59.3

because it kind of impacts some of y'all,

1:01.8

or all of y'all,

1:03.0

how you think about it.

1:04.0

But today, before we get to that,

1:07.0

we are going to talk about the difference

1:08.0

between talking and listening,

1:10.0

especially when it comes to yourself.

1:12.0

So, when I was thinking about this topic it made me think about my

1:16.2

grandfather who was the dean of NYU Medical School for several decades and he was

1:22.1

really widely revered and feared.

1:26.3

And at his funeral one of his colleagues told me that one of the secrets to his authority

1:30.5

was that he usually sat quietly during meetings while everyone else authority was

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