Befriending Your Inner Voice

Hidden Brain

Hidden Brain Media

Arts, Science, Performing Arts, Social Sciences

4.6 • 40.4K Ratings

🗓️ 1 July 2024

⏱️ 51 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. In this favorite conversation from 2022, we talk with Ethan about how to keep our negative emotions from morphing into chatter.

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0:00.0	This is Hidden Brain. I'm Shankar Vedantam. When was the last time you stayed awake at night,
0:06.6	unable to sleep, replaying something in your head that happened that day?
0:10.3	Did you notice how your thoughts day.
0:16.0	Did you notice how your thoughts coil back on themselves, how you went in circles as the night wore on?
0:19.0	All of us, even those who have been spared the pain of insomnia, have heard that voice.
0:26.4	If you've messed up a presentation at work or flubed a test at school or been rejected in love, you've heard those nagging, doubting thoughts,
0:35.6	burrowing themselves deeper and deeper into the recesses of your brain.
0:40.0	Ugh, how can I say something so stupid?
0:43.0	Why did I say it?
0:44.0	How was it a mess?
0:45.0	I'm always so lazy.
0:47.0	I really should have worked out.
0:48.0	Cannot believe you forgot to fill out that permission form,
0:52.0	you forgot about parent-teacher conferences, what the
0:55.5	half?
0:56.5	My back hurts.
0:58.5	My body is just falling apart.
1:02.3	Why does this inner voice seem to love to torment us? Wouldn't life be better if we could just...
1:10.0	Make it stop? When that negative inner voice takes hold, that is all we can hear because it is consuming our attention.
1:23.0	Today, we try to understand the purpose of that nagging voice inside your head.
1:29.0	How it works and what you can do to make it work for you,
1:32.0	this week on Hidden Brain. You might be an expert, you might be a novice, you could be a veteran or just starting out in your career.
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