Recently learnt that some people do NOT have an inner monologue. Wild.
Mine is so loud and chaotic it took my a long time to keep it “indoors” so to speak.
Ever been around someone muttering to themselves and your like, “what’d you say?” And their like, “nothing, I’m talking to myself.”
Like that? I’m that person because I couldn’t keep it in if I tried.
I think some of my problem is that my brain moves fast.
I don’t want to go smelling my own farts (thank my first million pod for that phrase) but my mind jumps from one idea to the next so fast that talking out loud slows the fcuker down.
It’s also been helpful to learn to speak in public and to speak with people who do not have English as a first language, because I naturally want to speak really fast, but pacing my verbal excretion means I can think before I speak.
Which I legit struggle with.
Another thing that has helped me, is videoing myself speaking.
Want a podcast? Record the first 3 expecting to scrap them or be ok with the product, cause from experience if you’ve never spoken in front of people or on record, you sound like a total dipsiht in review.
"Real guts are nothing more than developing your inner voice to the point where it is louder and stronger than the voice of your fear."
thinking inside my head, like really chewing on thoughts is a skill I have learned.
I fond that if I have a big problem with multiple moving pieces, I need to draw it out (whiteboard fetish is real) or use excel to methodically lay out all the pieces and then bring them back together into something that means something.
Regardless I couldn’t imagine not having an inner monologue.
Do you have one??
