Why You Should Talk to Yourself (in 3rd person).
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 3 August 2017
⏱️ 24 minutes
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Summary
Good Life Riff: Ever wonder why the internet is littered with a bajillion feel-good quotables, when the reality of most people's lives is pretty far from the utopian mumbo-jumbo we so often see hand-lettered all over insta?
Ever wonder what might happen if you changed those quotables to something that was a little less aspirational and a little more real? The short answer just might surprise you. That's what we're talking about today.
Good Life Science: And, in our Good Life Science segment, we're diving into an eye-opening bit of new research. It's about how we talk to ourselves when we're anxious and under stress. Turns out, we just might get better faster when we do something just a little bit, well, weird. When we shift our self-doubt to the third-person. Details in today's Good Life Science brief. And, as always, for those want to go to the source, here's a link to the full study.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello, it's Jonathan. |
| 0:05.0 | So as I sit here, it is very early in the morning in Encinitas, California. |
| 0:10.6 | I'm looking out through the doors at the ocean off in the distance. |
| 0:14.6 | And this is the day before we leave to return to our home in Gotham in New York City |
| 0:21.1 | after two weeks of transplanting here and taking a bit of a working vacation, |
| 0:26.4 | environmental psychological reset, a little bit sad because funny enough, |
| 0:32.0 | this is one of the only places that we've been where after two weeks we want to stay longer. |
| 0:37.8 | Normally we get pretty edgy and we want to go home, but anyway, |
| 0:42.2 | recording the final Good Life Project riff from the beach to share with you. |
| 0:47.8 | Good Life Project updates, good Life Project signs update today. |
| 0:52.3 | I'm talking about how honest we get with what we share, |
| 0:57.9 | especially when we're creating stuff, |
| 1:00.3 | deliberately for other people to experience, |
| 1:03.3 | and kind of a fascinating new study on how talking to ourselves can help us out |
| 1:11.3 | when we are struggling with emotions, which kind of make... |
| 1:16.3 | Yeah, those of us who talk to ourselves as we wander through the day |
| 1:20.1 | feel a little bit better. Anyway, onto those two topics into days. Good Life Update. |
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