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Why You Should Thank Your Inner Critic #shorts

22 Oct 2024 · 1 min

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A brief self-help YouTube short by Ashish Kothari in which the speaker personifies their inner critic as “Sam,” notes common feelings of persistent wrongness and self-judgment, and recommends responding with gratitude, asking “what’s true here?” to elicit specific, actionable observations, and separating raw data from rapid negative conclusions so you can choose how to respond.

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Sam's my inner critic. So he's a voice that tells me I'm wrong all the time, that I'm just not good enough, that I just can't do it right. There's something wrong. And I used to think that this was just true or it wasn't even a voice. It was just a sense of wrongness with me, which I think a lot of us can identify with. We can give gratitude for what they're trying to tell us. Usually there's a message that they're trying to give us and there's often some wisdom there. So if we can learn to ask like, okay, what's true here? What's specific, what detailed actual advice are you seeing? And go down to kind of the data level of what they're seeing without the conclusion because they really scan, conclude, alert, motivate and that's the scam. But if we can get to the data what they're scanning, then we can decide how we want to move.