You 2.0: Befriending Your Inner Voice

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain Media

Arts, Science, Performing Arts, Social Sciences

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🗓️ 1 August 2022

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

You know that negative voice that goes round and round in your head, keeping you up at night? When that negative inner voice gets switched on, it's hard to think about anything else. Psychologist Ethan Kross has a name for it: chatter. He says it's part of the human condition, but there are ways to keep our negative emotions from morphing into chatter.

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0:00.0	This is Hidden Brain, I'm Shankar Vedanta.
0:03.5	When was the last time you stayed awake at night, unable to sleep,
0:07.1	replaying something in your head that happened that day?
0:12.7	Did you notice how your thoughts coil back on themselves,
0:15.9	how you went in circles as the night wore on?
0:19.2	All of us, even those who have been spared the pain of insomnia,
0:23.2	have heard that voice.
0:25.5	If you've messed up a presentation at work,
0:28.0	or flubbed the tested school, or been rejected in love,
0:31.7	you've heard those nagging, doubting thoughts,
0:34.8	borrowing themselves deeper and deeper into the recesses of your brain.
0:39.5	Oh, how can I say something so stupid?
0:42.4	Why did I do that?
0:43.2	I was just a mess.
0:44.4	I'm always so lazy.
0:46.1	I really should have worked out.
0:47.5	Cannot believe you forgot to fill out that permission form.
0:51.4	You forgot about parent-teacher conferences.
0:54.4	What the t-shirts?
0:55.4	My back hurts.
0:57.4	My body is just falling apart.
0:59.6	Why does this inner voice seem to love to torment us?
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