Short transcript excerpt from a YouTube video by James Laughlin about replacing harsh self-criticism with self-compassion. The host elicits examples of negative self-talk (words like 'pathetic' and 'weak'), and the speaker cites research advising against lacerating self-criticism because it is ineffective.
I imagine you have some self talk about this and give us a sense. Can you, if you don't mind, like voice. What does your self talk say to you? What do you say to yourself because of this? Regret.
Yeah. There's a word, pathetic comes up.
Yeah, good.
That's the first one that comes to mind, the word weak. You're so weak.
Very good. Yeah. Okay, so here's what the research says on that. Okay, so basically, kind of like the self talk is sort of pretty tough. Lacerating self criticism. What the research tells us is don't do that. Not because it's unkind, although it is because it's ineffective.
