Dr. Aziz describes the internal voice that judges your speech, posture, and appearance, arguing it creates pressure without helping you improve. This critic operates on a false premise: that you need to become someone else. Real direction comes from your own values, not from constant self-judgment.
'Well, you did that wrong. That wasn't the right thing to say. Why did you approach that way? You're not standing right. Your face isn't doing the right thing. Your clothes aren't right. You're not like those people who are right. You're wrong. It's the wrong thing.' And it persists because it's not actually guiding you in any real way, like your— what you really value might— what's important to you might guide you. It's just pressure. And it's based upon a false premise from the beginning, which is that I have to be something other than whatever's here right now.
