Dr. Aziz explains how to handle your inner critic by recognizing it as a frightened kid, not an authority figure. When you notice its voice, pause the panic, and respond like a parent to a scared child, you can listen without being overwhelmed and strip away its power.
Don't go for that thing at risk in your career. It's not going to work out. You're going to fail. Oh, look, you're already failing at this thing right here. Look what's wrong with you. Why is that not working? Of course it's not working because look at you, right? That little snippet into that voice. That voice, in order to be free of it, instead of fighting it, and instead of deferring to it, you see it for what it really is. Because as you claim the captain, you notice something and you stop reacting with panic when you hear that voice and you start to pay attention to it and you realize something. And this is one of those aha reveal moments where that scary critic, you realize as you become the parent, the authority, you listen and you listen to it and you say, wait a minute, you're not the terrifying abusive boss. You're not the scary angry parent. You're terrified. You're like a big man-child. You're a big kid with a big voice back there. Yeah.
