Practice changing your inner dialogues-or stopping them altogether

Practice changing your inner dialogues-or stopping them altogether. Stop from time to time during the day and pay at-tention to your inner dialogue. You are NOT your thoughts, and you need to train yourself NOT to believe the messages they give.

— from The Mind in the Cockpit

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When you need the real reason buried under a problem, ask why five times in a row until you strike bedrock; and protect the slow system from the fast one the way Kahneman did, refusing on principle to say yes to a request on the phone, because the quick answer is so rarely the wise one. Manage the inner voice. When a thought is strangling you, learn to step back and see it as just a thought — a passing appearance of words, not a fact; practice changing your inner dialogue, or stopping it altogether for stretches of the day. Watch your emotions as they rise and name them in the moment, which slips a sliver of space between the feeling and whatever you do about it. — The Mind in the Cockpit

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